Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China by Yunan Xu

Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China by Yunan Xu

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of land grabbing, rural development and agrarian transformations, as well as Chinese development.

Yunan Xu is a Post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She works for a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant awarded project "Commodity & Land Rushes and Regimes: Reshaping Five Spheres of Global Social Life (RRUSHES-5)". She obtained her PhD degree in development studies at ISS. Her research experience and interest revolve around land politics and commodity rush, and how these have shaped the politics of local natural resource control, food, as well as labour and livelihoods, with the geographic areas both in China and beyond (including the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative). She has published in top international academic journals, including Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum, Land use policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Third World Quarterly and Third World Thematics.

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ISBN 13	9780367429096
ISBN 10	0367429098
Title	Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China
Author	Yunan Xu
Series	Routledge Studies In Global Land And Resource Grabbing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2020-03-18
Number of pages	188
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