Rural House-Building and Land Resource Use Control

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The unprecedented loss of arable land has long been a matter of urgent concern to the Chinese government. Rural house-building craze in some underdeveloped area in China is one of the main factors which caused the destruction of farmland . Why do villagers use scarce farmland to construct house And why has the Chinese government been unable to control housing construction in the countryside Previous studies of the factors motivating the rural housing boom tend to explain this either as an economic rational actors or a social mobility tactic.This paper presents interview in a village in Jiangxi province, and shows that land management out of order, the social aspirations of families and the habitus of land use rules are major stimuli of the rural house-building craze.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 726-731)

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4814-4817

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August 2013

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