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Title Dragons with clay feet? [electronic resource] : transition, sustainable land use, and rural environment in China and Vietnam / edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, and Futian Qu.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2007.

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Description xiv, 341 p. : ill., maps.
Series Rural economies in transition
Rural economies in transition.
Note 1st paperback edition 2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Transition, economic policy and institutional reforms in China and Vietnam: impact on sustainable land use / Nico Heerink, Max Spoor and Futian Qu -- Regional inequality in China: scope, sources, and strategies to reduce it / Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang -- Fiscal decentralization, non-farm development, and spatial inequality in rural China / Xiabo Zhang and Shenggen Fan -- The contribution of diversification to the growth and sustainability of Chinese agriculture / Funing Zhong -- Growth and regional inequality in Asia's "new dragons": China and Vietnam compared / Max Spoor -- Land policy in Vietnam's agrarian transition: a case study of Naminh Province / Nguyen Do Anh Tuan -- The effects of economic policy reforms on the economic environment of farm households in China: an empirical analysis for Jiangxi Province / Zhigang Chen, Nico Heerink, and Peixin Zhu -- Farm household responses to China's new rural income support policy: a village-level analysis / Nico Heerink, Marijke Kuiper, and Xiaoping Shi -- Marketing chains, transaction costs, and resource management: efficiency and trust within tomato supply chains in Nanjing City / Ruerd Ruben, Hualiang Lu, and Erno Kuiper -- Off-farm employment, factor market development, and input use in farm production a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China / Xiaoping Shi ... [et al.] -- Land fragmentation and smallholder rice farm's production costs in Jiangxi Province, China / Shuhao Tan, Gideon Kruseman, and Nico Heerink -- Intensification of rice production and negative health effects for farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's transition / Nguyen Huu Dung and Max Spoor -- Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China / Jing Zhu and Yousheng Li -- Sustainability issues in East Asian rice cultivation / Herman van Keulen -- Agricultural technology and nitrogen pollution in Southeast China / Marrit van den Berg, Guanghuo Wang, and Reimund Roetter -- China's farmland use: a scenario analysis of changes and trends / Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, and Minghong Tan.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Agriculture and state -- China.
Agriculture and state -- Vietnam.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- China.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam.
Sustainable development -- China.
Sustainable development -- Vietnam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Spoor, Max.
Heerink, Nico, 1955-
Qu, Futian.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780739113691 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739113690 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739146569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780739154397 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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