Dragon with clay feet? transition, sustainable land use, and rural environment in China and Vietnam/ edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink and futian Qu - Lanham: Lexington, 2007. - xiv, 341p.; 24cm.


Contents

List of tables
List of figures

1.Introduction: Transition, economic policy, and institutional reforms in China and Vietnam: Impact on sustainable land use / Nico Heerink, Max Spoor, and Futian Qu --

Part I: Regional and sectoral impact of economic reforms.
2. Regional inequality in China: Scope, sources, and strategies to reduce it / Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang --
3.Fiscal decentralization, non-farm development, and spatial inequality in rural China / Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan --
4.The contribution of diversification to the growth and sustainability of Chinese agriculture / Funing Zhong --
5.Growth and regional inequality in Asia's "New Dragons": China and Vietnam compared / Max Spoor --
6.Land policy in Vietnam's agrarian transition: A case study of Namdinh province / Nguyen Do Anh Tuan --
7.The effects of economic policy reform on the economic environment of farm households in China: An empirical analysis for Jiangxi province / Zhigang Chen, Nico Heerink, and Peixin Zhu.

Part II: Farm household decision-making under a changing economic and institutional environment.
8.Farm household responses to China's new rural income support policy: a village-level analysis / Nico Heerink, Marijke Kuiper, and Xiaoping Shi --
9.Marketing chains, transaction costs, and resource management: Efficiency and trust within tomato supply chains in Nanjing City / Ruerd Ruben, Hualiang Lu, and Erno Kuiper --
10.Off-farm employment, factor market development, and imput use in farm production: A case study of a remote village in Jiangxi province, China / Xiaoping Shi, Nico Heerink, Stein Holden, and Futain Qu --
11.Land fragmentation and smallholder rice farm's production costs in Jiangxi province, China / Shuhao Tan, Gideon Kruseman, and Nico Heerink --
12.Intensification of rice production and negative health effects for farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's transition / Nguyen Huu Dung and Max Spoor --
13.Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China / Jing Zhu and Yousheng Li.

Part III: Agriculture and sustainable land management.
14. Sustainability issues in East Asian rice cultivation / Herman van Keulen --
15.Agricultural technology and nitrogen pollution in Southeast China / Marrit van den Berg, Guanghuo Wang, and Reimund Roetter --
16.China's farmland use: A scenario analysis of changes and trends / Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, and Minghong Tan --

Appendix --
Index --

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Agriculture and state -- China
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- China
Agriculture and state -- Vietnam

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