Which Factors Affect Farmers’ Willingness for rural community remediation? A tale of three rural villages in China

Xiaoling Zhang and Lu Han

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 74, issue C, 195-203

Abstract: With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in China, rural China is entering into a social and economic transformation period. As the national policy has shifted towards ensuring economic development while retaining considerable arable land, China has strictly controlled the conversion of agricultural land to construction land, with the amount of unused land diminishing. In this context, the search for new construction land has become an overwhelmingly urgent task. As a result, remediation of the rural community has gradually become an important choice for Chinese government. In this paper, we have investigated the characteristics of rural residential concentrations and factors affecting the willingness for rural community remediation in different regions of China by using the logistic regression method. A mutual influence model is built to provide a scientific basis for the reclamation and improvement of rural land. The results show that rural farmers in regions with different economic development levels have different preferences in large-scale operations and compensation method. 1) In line with the willingness to remediate (WtR), farmers in the western and central regions have significantly more WtR than those in the eastern region (eastern regionKeywords: Rural residential concentration; Farmers’ willingness; Mutual influence; Mutual influence mechanism; Logistic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.08.014

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