Values in land: Fiscal pressures, land disputes and justice claims in rural and peri-urban China

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 569-587

  Whiting, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPUTE RESOLUTION; FISCAL POLICY; LAND MARKET; LAND RIGHTS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PERIURBAN AREA; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

CHINA;

EID: 79551584728     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010390242     Document Type: Article

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