Establishment of social stability risks evaluation model based on GAHP and IVHFSs

The construction of hydraulic projects inevitably involves land requisition and resettlement, with considerable impact on the society, the environment, and the economy of the project site, and leading to social stability risk events. Therefore, it is necessary to systematically assess social stability risk to put forward corresponding countermeasures. By applying WSR theory (Wuli-Shili-Renli Theory) to the investigation of the case-study of the Jiangxiang Reservoir Project, this paper constructs an evaluation index system for the risk to social stability from land requisition and resettlement, from the three dimensions of “physics”, “matter”, and “human principle”. The GAHP (Group-decision Analytic Hierarchy Process) method is used to determine the index weights, while the index values of each risk factor are determined by using the interval valued hesitant fuzzy sets (IVHFSs) method. A comprehensive assessment of risks to social stability from land requisition and resettlement in the Jiangxiang Reservoir Project is performed, and coping strategies for major social stability risk factors are proposed. This paper effectively supports the development of assessments of risks to social stability from land requisition and resettlement in other hydraulic projects.

Practical Dilemma and Path Innovation of Social Governance: A Case Study of Land Expropriation in China

In the “Internet+” era, conflicts of land requisition frequently occur. Existing research emphasizes the lack of systems but rarely considers the problems in the implementation of the system. Based on “Internet+”, this article adopts a case analysis method to discuss the governance of land requisition conflicts. This study analyzes the contradictions in the implementation of land acquisition, benefit distribution, procedures and information feedback. The dilemma of social governance stems from the “autonomous space”, “three-dimensional competition” and “independent space” of local governments. The innovation path of social governance needs to emphasize the supervision and regulation in the implementation of the system, the optimization of the system and the setting of the system and the flexible setting of the local field.

A Study on the Policy of Cultivated Land Requisition-Compensation Balance of China With Q County R Railway Dry Port as an Example

With the acceleration of China's new urbanization and industrialization process, the expanding demand for construction land will continue to expropriate a large number of cultivated land. Under the strict land management system, the policy of land requisition and compensation balance will continue to protect China's food security and the bottom line of 1.8 billion mu of China's cultivated land. Based on China's land management law, agricultural law, and other land management policies, the authors analyzed the dilemma and development trend of China's policy of land requisition and compensation balance, combining with the case study of building R railway dry port in Q County, Western China. By analyzing the balance policy of land requisition and compensation, this chapter tries to find the defects and future development trend of China's cultivated land protection policy.

Nonmarketization Bargaining and Actual Compensation Level for Land Requisition: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of China’s Land Requisition Conflict Events

In the land requisition market in China, two very different compensation levels for land requisition can be seen in the real world: one is the highly rigid official compensation level for land requisition and the other is a fuzzy actual compensation level for land requisition. In order to uncover the determinants of the actual compensation level for land requisition in China, this paper adopts Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to analyze the causal relationship between nonmarketization bargaining factors, like land-losing farmers’ bargaining ability, bargaining strategy, external intervention, etc., and the actual compensation level for land requisition by taking 70 land requisition conflict events occurring from 2002 to 2017 as the point of departure. The results of the empirical analysis show that if land-losing farmers have a relatively strong bargaining ability, forgo a radical bargaining strategy, and use a relatively gentle bargaining strategy instead, they can effectively force local governments to make concessions and compromises on the compensation level for land requisition. This paper not only enriches the existing research on the structure of social power, but it also has significance for the ongoing reform of the land requisition system.

The Impact of Land Requisition on Peasant Life in China

Since the late 1990s, land requisition has given rise to peasant protests in much of rural China. The literature is mostly focused on how local governments attempted to expropriate land for various purposes—at the expense of the peasants’ interests. This article goes beyond the exploitation/resistance binary and offers an in-depth analysis of the benefits and costs of land requisition to peasants through an examination of the requisition deals and peasants’ post-requisition lives. It argues that the extent to which peasants benefited or suffered from land requisition was determined by multiple factors which differed region by region, village by village, and household by household. These factors include the purposes of land requisition, the commercial potential of the land, the local government’s coffers and its land compensation package, the extent of the peasants’ reliance on farming to earn a living, their non-farming skills, social networks, and competitiveness in labor markets.