TY - BOOK ID - 30998999 TI - The land development game in China PY - 2013 SN - 1283942739 0739169599 0739169580 1498515231 9780739169599 9781283942737 9780739169582 PB - Lanham, Md. Lexington Books DB - UniCat KW - Land use KW - Land use, Rural KW - Planning. KW - Rural land use KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Agriculture KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome KW - Planning KW - E-books KW - S20/0450 KW - S20/0700 KW - S20/0730 KW - China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Land tenure and utilization: after 1949 KW - China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Communist land reform and agrarian policy KW - China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Rural reforms: since 1979 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30998999 AB - The book describes on-the-ground realities of policy making and implementation in China in the field of land development, and illustrates how a rigid central planning system works in practice. Among other things, it highlights the difficulty of China's current political system in promoting economic efficiency and distributive justice at the same time. ER -