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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822110003321

Titolo

Dragons with clay feet? : transition, sustainable land use, and rural environment in China and Vietnam / / edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, and Futian Qu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2007

ISBN

1-283-28958-X

9786613289582

0-7391-5439-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Rural economies in transition

Classificazione

48.14

Altri autori (Persone)

SpoorMax <1950->

HeerinkNico <1955->

QuFutian

Disciplina

338.1/851

Soggetti

Agriculture and state - China

Agriculture and state - Vietnam

Agriculture - Economic aspects - China

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Vietnam

Sustainable development - China

Sustainable development - Vietnam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1st paperback edition 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Transition, economic policy and institutional reforms in China and Vietnam: impact on sustainable land use / Nico Heerink, Max Spoor and Futian Qu -- Regional inequality in China: scope, sources, and strategies to reduce it / Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang -- Fiscal decentralization, non-farm development, and spatial inequality in rural China / Xiabo Zhang and Shenggen Fan -- The contribution of diversification to the growth and sustainability of Chinese agriculture / Funing Zhong -- Growth and regional inequality in Asia's "new dragons": China and Vietnam compared / Max Spoor -- Land policy in Vietnam's agrarian transition: a case study of Namđinh Province / Nguyen Do Anh Tuan -- The effects of economic policy reforms on the economic environment of farm households in China: an empirical



analysis for Jiangxi Province / Zhigang Chen, Nico Heerink, and Peixin Zhu -- Farm household responses to China's new rural income support policy: a village-level analysis / Nico Heerink, Marijke Kuiper, and Xiaoping Shi -- Marketing chains, transaction costs, and resource management: efficiency and trust within tomato supply chains in Nanjing City / Ruerd Ruben, Hualiang Lu, and Erno Kuiper -- Off-farm employment, factor market development, and input use in farm production  a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China / Xiaoping Shi ... [et al.] -- Land fragmentation and smallholder rice farm's production costs in Jiangxi Province, China / Shuhao Tan, Gideon Kruseman, and Nico Heerink -- Intensification of rice production and negative health effects for farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's transition / Nguyen Huu Dung and Max Spoor -- Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China / Jing Zhu and Yousheng Li -- Sustainability issues in East Asian rice cultivation / Herman van Keulen -- Agricultural technology and nitrogen pollution in Southeast China / Marrit van den Berg, Guanghuo Wang, and Reimund Roetter -- China's farmland use: a scenario analysis of changes and trends / Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, and Minghong Tan.

Sommario/riassunto

Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies-China and Vietnam.