The impact of rural out-migration on land use transition in China: Past, present and trend

Land Use Policy

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 101-110

  Chen, Ruishan ^a,b,c   Ye, Chao ^d   Cai, Yunlong ^b   Xing, Xiaoshi ^c   Chen, Qiong ^b,e  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e QINGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Food environment development trilemma; Land use transition; Rural out migration

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOOD SECURITY; LAND USE CHANGE; MOBILITY; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84901438137     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Adger W.N., Kelly P.M., Winkels A., Huy L.Q., Locke C. Migration, remittances, livelihood trajectories, and social resilience. AMBIO 2002, 31(4):358-366.
2. Aide T.M., Grau H.R. Globalization migration, and Latin American ecosystems. Science 2004, 305(5692):1915-1916.
3. Andersen, J.E., 2010. Housing, taxation and urban development in China. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Urban Development and Land Economics, Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, July 9-10, 2010. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1653490.
4. Antrop M. Why landscapes of the past are important for the future. Landscape and Urban Planning 2005, 70(1):21-34.
5. Bell S., Alves S., de Oliveira E.S., Zuin A. Migration and land use change in Europe: a review. Living Reviews in Landscape Research 2010, 4.
6. Bilsborrow R.E., Geores M. Rural Population Dynamics and Agricultural Development: Issues and Consequences Observed in Latin America 1992, Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, Ithaca, NY, 160 pp.
7. Black R., Bennett S.R.G., Thomas S.M., Beddington J.R. Climate change: migration as adaptation. Nature 2011, 478(7370):447-449.
8. Boserup E. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure 1965, Aldine De Gruyter, Chicago, 128 pp.
9. Brown D.G., Johnson K.M., Loveland T.R., Theobald D.M. Rural land-use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000. Ecological Applications 2005, 15(6):1851-1863.
10. Cai Y.L., Wang Y., Li Y.P. Study on changing relationship of demand and supply of cultivated land in China. China Land Science 2009, 23(3):11-18. 31 (in Chinese).
11. Carr D.L. Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters. Progress in Human Geography 2009, 33(3):355-378.
12. Carr D.L., Suter L., Barbieri A. Population dynamics and tropical deforestation: state of the debate and conceptual challenges. Population and Environment 2005, 27(1):89-113.
13. Chang J., Wu X., Wang Y., Meyerson L.A., Gu B.J., Min Y., Xue H., Peng C.H., Ying Ge Y. Does growing vegetables in plastic greenhouses enhance regional ecosystem services beyond the food supply?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2013, 11(1):43-49.
14. Chen L., Heerink N., van den Berg M. Energy consumption in rural China: a household model for three villages in Jiangxi Province. Ecological Economics 2006, 58(2):407-420.
15. Chen W., Yu W. Three North Shelterbelt Construction Program built 26.47million ha forest in 34 years. Xinhua News 2012, (in Chinese). http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2012-08/27/c_112864572.htm.
16. DeFries R., Rosenzweig C. Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land use in the tropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010, 107(46):19627-19632.
17. Economist Shifting the problem: a massive resettlement project in northern China is not all it seems. The Economist 2012, 45-46.
18. Ellis E.C. Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2011, 369(1938):1010-1035.
19. Fan C.C. China on the move: migration, the state, and the household. The China Quarterly 2008, 196:924-956.
20. Fan J., Li P.X. The scientific foundation of Major Function Oriented Zoning in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences 2009, 19(5):515-531. (in Chinese).
21. Foley J.A., Defries R., Asner G.P., Barford C., Bonan G., Carpenter S.R., Chapin F.S., Coe M.T., Daily G.C., Gibbs H.K., Helkowski J.H., Holloway T., Howard E.A., Kucharik C.J., Monfreda C., Patz J.A., Prentice I.C., Ramankutty N., Snyder P.K. Global consequences of land use. Science 2005, 309(5734):570-574.
22. Gao Q. Two million hectares of farmland abandoned per year in China. China Daily 2011, (in Chinese). http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-09/13/content_13678947.htm.
23. GLP Global Land Project: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy 2005, IGBP, Stockholm, 64 pp.
24. Grötzbach E. Mobility of labour in high mountains and the socio-economic integration of peripheral areas. Mountain Research and Development 1984, 4(3):229-235.
25. Grau H.R., Aide M. Globalization and land-use transitions in Latin America. Ecology and Society 2008, 13(2):16.
26. Grau H.R., Aide T.M. Are rural-urban migration and sustainable development compatible in mountain systems?. Mountain Research and Development 2007, 27(2):119-123.
27. Han J., Wang Z., Cui C., He Y. The general trend of Chinese migrant workers: viewing the twelfth five-year plan. Reform 2010, 8:5-29. (in Chinese).
28. He S.L., Wu Q.Z., Yue X.F., Qin J.Y. Study on the arable land abandoning and the problems of left-behind crowd caused by the drain of young and middle-aged labor in rural areas. Journal of Anhui Agricultural Science 2009, 37(19):9180-9182. (in Chinese).
29. Hecht S.B., Saatchi S.S. Globalization and forest resurgence: changes in forest cover in El Salvador. Bioscience 2007, 57(8):663-672.
30. Jiang Z.G. On the upper limit of the area of the strictly protected nature reserves in China. Acta Ecoogica Sinica 2005, 25(5):1205-1212. (in Chinese).
31. Kates R.W., Parris T.M. Long-term trends and a sustainability transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003, 100(14):8062-8067.
32. López-Carr D., Burgdorfer J. Deforestation drivers: population, migration, and tropical land use. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 2013, 55(1):3-11.
33. Lamb G. Community supported agriculture. Threefold Review 1994, 11:39-43.
34. Lambin E.F., Meyfroidt P. Land use transitions: socio-ecological feedback versus socio-economic change. Land Use Policy 2010, 27(2):108-118.
35. Lambin E.F., Meyfroidt P. Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011, 108(9):3465-3472.
36. Lewis W.A. Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour. The Manchester School 1954, 22(2):139-191.
37. Li X.S., Zhang S.L., Wang Y.H. Quantitative study of construction land increase limit year in the economic transition stage in China. Journal of Natural Resources 2011, 26(7):1085-1095. (in Chinese).
38. Lichtenberg E., Ding C. Assessing farmland protection policy in China. Land Use Policy 2008, 25(1):59-68.
39. Liu J., Daily G.C., Ehrlich P.R., Luck G.W. Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity. Nature 2003, 421(6922):530-533.
40. Liu Y. Chinese Forestry Bureau: China plan to continue with the natural forest protection plan. Xinhua News Agency 2010, (in Chinese). http://www.gov.cn/jrzg/2010-12/30/content_1775504.htm.
41. Long H.L., Li T.T. The coupling characteristics and mechanism of farmland and rural housing land transition in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences 2012, 22(3):548-562.
42. Long H.L., Li Y.R., Liu Y.S., Woods M., Zou J. Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by 'increasing vs. decreasing balance' land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages. Land Use Policy 2012, 29(1):11-22.
43. Long H.L., Liu Y.S., Li X.B., Chen Y.F. Building new countryside in China: a geographical perspective. Land Use Policy 2010, 27(2):457-470.
44. Long H.L., Woods M. Rural restructuring under globalization in eastern coastal China: what can be learned from Wales?. Journal of Rural and Community Development 2011, 6(1):70-94.
45. Long H.L., Zou J. Grain production driven by variations in farmland use in China: an analysis of security patterns. Journal of Resources and Ecology 2010, 1(1):60-67.
46. Macedo M.N., DeFries R.S., Morton D.C., Stickler C.M., Galford G.L., Shimabukuro Y.E. Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012, 109(4):1341-1346.
47. Matson P.A., Parton W.J., Power A., Swift M. Agricultural intensification and ecosystem properties. Science 1997, 277(5325):504-509.
48. McLeman R.A. Settlement abandonment in the context of global environmental change. Global Environmental Change 2011, 21(Suppl. 1):S108-S120.
49. Murphy R. How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China 2002, 306pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
50. National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) The Third Population Census of China 1983, China Statistics Press, Beijing, (in Chinese).
51. National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) China Statistical Yearbook 2011 2011, China Statistics Press, Beijing, (in Chinese).
52. National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) Chinese Statistical Yearbook 2012 2012, China Statistics Press, Beijing, (in Chinese).
53. National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC) Report on China's Migrant Population Development 2012, China Population Publishing House, Beijing, (in Chinese).
54. Peng X.Z. China's demographic history and future challenges. Science 2011, 333(6042):581-587.
55. Phalan B., Onial M., Balmford A., Green R.E. Reconciling food production and biodiversity conservation: land sharing and land sparing compared. Science 2011, 333(6047):1289-1291.
56. Ranis G., Fei J.C. A theory of economic development. The American Economic Review 1961, 51(4):533-565.
57. Rounsevell M.D.A., Pedroli B., Erb K.-H., Gramberger M., Busck A.G., Haberl H., Kristensen S., Kuemmerle T., Lavorel S., Lindner M., Lotze-Campen H., Metzger M.J., Murray-Rust D., Popp A., Pérez-Soba M., Reenberg A., Vadineanu A., Verburg P.H., Wolfslehner B. Challenges for land system science. Land Use Policy 2012, 29(4):899-910.
58. Rudel T.K. Is there a forest transition? Deforestation, reforestation, and development. Rural Sociology 1998, 63(4):533-552.
59. Rudel T.K., Bates D., Machinguiashi R. A tropical forest transition? Agricultural change, out-migration, and secondary forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2002, 92(1):87-102.
60. Rudel T.K., Schneider L., Uriarte M., Turner B.L., DeFries R., Lawrence D., Geoghegan J., Hecht S., Ickowitz A., Lambin E.F., Birkenholtz T., Baptista S., Grau R. Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009, 106(49):20675-20680.
61. Seto K.C., Reenberg A., Boone C.G., Fragkias M., Haase D., Langanke T., Marcotullio P., Munroe D.K., Olah B., Simon D. Urban land teleconnections and sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012, 109(20):7687-7692.
62. Shi X., Heerink N., Qu F. Does off-farm employment contribute to agriculture-based environmental pollution? New insights from a village-level analysis in Jiangxi Province, China. China Economic Review 2011, 22(4):524-533.
63. Siciliano G. Urbanization strategies, rural development and land use changes in China: a multiple-level integrated assessment. Land Use Policy 2012, 29(1):165-178.
64. Small C., Elvidge C.D. Night on Earth: mapping decadal changes of anthropogenic night light in Asia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2013, 22:40-52.
65. Tan R., Beckmann V. Diversity of practical quota systems for farmland preservation: a multicountry comparison and analysis. Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy 2010, 28(2):211.
66. Tan Y., Wang Y.Q. Environmental migration and sustainable development in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Population and Environment 2004, 25(6):613-636.
67. Taylor J.E., Martin P.L. Human capital: migration and rural population change. Handbook of Agricultural Economics 2001, 1:457-511.
68. Teller C., Hailemariam A. The complex nexus between population dynamics and development in sub-saharan Africa: a new conceptual framework of demographic response and human adaptation to societal and environmental hazards. The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa 2011, 3-16. Springer, Netherlands. C. Teller, A. Hailemariam (Eds.).
69. Tian Y.J., Li X.B., Ma G.X., Hao H.G. Influences of labor emigration from agriculture on abandonment of cultivated land in ecological sensitive areas. China Land Science 2010, 24(7):4-9. (in Chinese).
70. Turner B.L., Fischer-Kowalski M. Ester Boserup: an interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010, 107(51):21963-21965.
71. United Nations (UN) World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision 2012, United Nations Population Dividion, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York.
72. Wang J., Chen Y.Q., Shao X.M., Zhang Y.Y., Cao Y.G. Land-use changes and policy dimension driving forces in China: present, trend and future. Land Use Policy 2012, 29(4):737-749.
73. Wang S., Cornelis van Kooten G., Wilson B. Mosaic of reform: forest policy in post-1978 China. Forest Policy and Economics 2004, 6(1):71-83.
74. Wang X., Zhang C., Hasi E., Dong Z. Has the Three Norths Forest Shelterbelt Program solved the desertification and dust storm problems in arid and semiarid China?. Journal of Arid Environments 2010, 74(1):13-22.
75. Wang Z.M., Song K.S., Hu L.J. China's largest scale ecological migration in the Three-River Headwater Region. AMBIO 2010, 39(5):443-446.
76. Wilson G. Multifunctional 'quality' and rural community resilience. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2010, 35(3):364-381.
77. Xu J. Migrant workers reached 221 million, family migration is dominant. Caixin Online 2011, (in Chinese). http://china.caixin.com/2011-03-03/100231784.html.
78. Xu X.L., Cao M.K., Li K.R. Temporal-spatial dynamics of carbon storage of forest vegetation in China. Progress in Geography 2007, 26(6):1-10. (in Chinese).
79. Yu E., Liu J. Environmental impacts of divorce. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007, 104(51):20629-20634.
80. Zelinsky W. The hypothesis of the mobility transition. Geographical Review 1971, 61(2):219-249.
81. Zhang X.Y., Wang X.M., Yan P. Re-evaluating the impacts of human activity and environmental change on desertification in the Minqin Oasis, China. Environmental Geology 2008, 55(4):705-715.
82. Zhou X.S., Liu Y. Peasants' income structure evolution and its enlightenment. Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin 2012, 28(14):210-213. (in Chinese).