Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China: Implications for Global Land Grabbing

ISBN-13: 9781032173153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str.

Yunan Xu

Opis

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of land grabbing, rural development and agrarian transformations, as well as Chinese development.

Spis treści

1. Rethinking the industrial tree plantation sector in Southern China  2. The rise of the ITP sector in Southern China  3. The role of the state in the expansion of the ITP sector in China  4. Foreign investments and their land access in the Industrial Tree Plantation Sector  5. Changes in villagers’ livelihoods in Southern China within the rise of ITP sector  6. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in the emerging industrial tree plantation sector in China  7. Conclusion  Appendix  Index

O autorze

Yunan Xu is a Post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She works for a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant awarded project "Commodity & Land Rushes and Regimes: Reshaping Five Spheres of Global Social Life (RRUSHES-5)". She obtained her PhD degree in development studies at ISS. Her research experience and interest revolve around land politics and commodity rush, and how these have shaped the politics of local natural resource control, food, as well as labour and livelihoods, with the geographic areas both in China and beyond (including the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative). She has published in top international academic journals, including Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum, Land use policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Third World Quarterly and Third World Thematics.