Property rights integrity, tenure security and forestland rental market participation: Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuepeng Zhou ◽  
Xiaoping Shi ◽  
Dengyan Ji ◽  
Xianlei Ma ◽  
Satish Chand
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Rental Market

Social capital and perceived tenure security of informal housing: Evidence from Beijing, China

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110330
Author(s):  
Mengzhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Psychological Explanation ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Tenure Security

Perceived tenure security is recognised to affect the socioeconomic behaviours and wellbeing of informal settlement dwellers. The provision of perceived tenure security is centred on the developmental agenda as a key policy alternative of tenure legalisation. Despite the consensus about its importance, the reason perceived tenure security is different amongst dwellers remains unclear. To fill this gap, we introduce social capital theory to understand the formation of and disparity in perceived tenure security. The hypotheses are that dwellers living in informal settlements with higher collective social capital and having higher individual social capital tend to feel more secure on their tenure because of higher backing power attained to deter the threats of eviction. We examine the hypotheses using a structural equation model approach to a dataset collected from three small property rights housing communities, which are emerging informal settlements in urban China. Modelling results support our hypotheses and suggest that female, low-income and migrant dwellers tend to feel less secure on their tenure because of the lack of social capital to deter the threats to their tenure. This study contributes to a new sociological explanation for the disparity in perceived tenure security other than the established psychological explanation. Empirically, this study contributes to the understanding of the rapid development of small property rights housing developments in China from the perspective of how dwellers develop security on informal tenure.

scholarly journals Has China’s New Round of Collective Forestland Tenure Reform Caused an Increase in Rural Labor Transfer?

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Liu Yang ◽  
Yang Ren
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Agricultural Employment ◽  
Force Increase ◽  
Labor Transfer ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
Binary Probit

To investigate the rural labor transfer effects of China’s Collective Forestland Tenure Reform (CFTR), we employ binary probit models by using survey data of 694 households from China’s northern collective forest areas. The results reveal that the improved property rights, including rights for forestland use, disposition and beneficiaries, and refined tenure security under the CFTR generally have caused an increase in rural household labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. Besides, we find that forestry-dominated households’ risk perceptions on forestland reallocation and expropriation have significantly dampened rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. These can be explained by the fact that the strengthening of forestland property rights brought about by the CFTR can promote an increase in the forestland transfer rate and improve the forestland relocation efficiency. This, in turn, will lead to the liberation of the rural labor force, increase the non-agricultural employment rate of farmers, and ultimately lead to an increase in the rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. Therefore, these findings indicate that to motivate rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector in the context of the Chinese government’s call for urbanization and other developing countries’ handling of similar circumstances, policymakers should further refine household forestland property rights and better protect forestland tenure security by continuing to improve related forestry policies.

Property rights, tenure security and forest investment incentives: evidence from China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Yi ◽  
Gunnar Köhlin ◽  
Jintao Xu
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Large Database ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Collective Forest Tenure Reform

AbstractThis paper assesses how tenure reform in China's collective forest sector affects Chinese farmer households’ perception of tenure security and propensity to invest in their forestland. A large database consisting of information from 3,180 households in eight provinces from south to north is used to explore factors correlated with more strongly perceived tenure security and determinants of forest-related investment. The study adds to the limited research testing whether there is endogenous causality between investment and tenure security in forestland, and finds that investment was not undertaken to enhance tenure security. In addition, the data allow for differentiation between perceived tenure security and contracted use and transferability rights. Overall, stronger contracted rights were found to affect investment. China's forest tenure reform – where individual households can manage forestland, empowered by legal certification and stronger contract rights – has thus enhanced tenure security and encouraged forest investment.

Community Justice and the Appeal to Ancestral Property Rights: An Analysis of Disputes over Development Plans in Xiatang Village of Central Jiangxi

Rural China ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-326
Author(s):  
Yan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Business Elites ◽  
Community Justice ◽  
Clan Culture ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Mode Of Production

Past studies have well documented the atrophy of lineage organizations and functions in rural China after 1949 as well as their resurgence in the post-Mao era. To further the research on lineage organizations and changes in their functions, this article reexamines the role of lineage organizations in the resistance against graveyard removal in Xiatang village of central Jiangxi province. Xiatang villagers attempted to revive traditional clan culture by rebuilding ancestral halls and updating clan genealogies; they also succeeded in defending their nominal ownership of Mt. Qingling by appealing to their ancestral property rights in the struggle against graveyard removal. The recent improvements in villagers’ living conditions, changes in the mode of production in agriculture, and the expansion of market forces have all led to changes in power relations in Xiatang village, in which the revived lineage organizations played a role that is both symbolic and instrumental. Yet, the control of community resources by the administrative and business elites, together with the penetration of state power into rural society through various channels, also effectively eroded lineage influences.

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