Sustainable Territories: Rural Dispossession, Land Enclosures and the Construction of Environmental Resources in China

Human Geography(United Kingdom)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-125

  Chen, Jia Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

agrarian transition; cercamiento de tierras; China; Desposesi n; Dispossession; environmentalization; land enclosure; medioambientalizaci n; transici n agraria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907972313     PISSN: 19427786     EISSN: 2633674X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194277861300600107     Document Type: Article

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