Factors affecting farmers' satisfaction with contemporary China's land allocation policy – The Link Policy: Based on the empirical research of Ezhou

Habitat International

Volumn 75, Issue , 2018, Pages 38-49

  Cheng, Long ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Brown, Gregory ^a,b   Searle, Glen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Rural resettlement; Satisfaction; Structural Equation Modelling; The Link Policy; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

FARMERS ATTITUDE; LIFESTYLE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESEARCH WORK; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; RURAL ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; EZHOU; HUBEI;

EID: 85046341361     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2018.04.004     Document Type: Article

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