Land-Acquisition and Resettlement (LAR) Conflicts: A Perspective of Spatial Injustice of Urban Public Resources Allocation

Abstract

Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) is an important step in urban development. As one of the 'externalities of development', LAR conflicts have affected social stability and development in rural areas of China. With social conflict research shifting from value identity to resource allocation, few studies have examined the relationship between the spatial injustice of urban public resources and LAR conflict. To mitigate this research gap and formulate effective policies, this study aims to reinterpret the obstacles of LAR conflicts from the perspective of the spatial injustice of urban public facilities allocation in Hangzhou City by examining 195 administrative litigation cases. Spatial accessibility was used for estimating the spatial justice of urban public resources allocation. A classification and regression tree (CART) model was applied to identify the advantage and disadvantage factors behind LAR conflict, and explored the logical and structural relationships among these factors. Results showed that a spatial mismatch between the spatial behavior preferences of human activity and the spatial injustice of urban public resources allocation had significantly accelerated LAR conflicts. When the spatial behavior preferences of human activity and spatial distribution of urban public resources correspond to each other pre-and after LAR, basic rights to social space are safeguarded and various groups can equitably share spatial resources. There are no conflicts. Conversely, respondents expressed a high level of dissatisfaction in comparison to their pre-LAR conditions, and LAR conflict undeniably occurs. This approach also proposes some good LAR policies by regulating the spatial injustice of urban public resources allocation associated with LAR with the aim of long-term urban sustainable development for Hangzhou.

Acción de cumplimiento, proceso contencioso administrativo y tribunal constitucional

“…(Cui et al, 2019) Interpretar los obstáculos de la conflictividad asociada a adquisición de tierras y reasentamiento humano, desde la perspectiva de la justicia espacial de la asignación de los recursos públicos urbanos en la ciudad de Hangzhou, examinando 195 casos de litigios administrativos. (Zhu et al, 2018) Indagar sobre la presencia de Asia Oriental en el ámbito de la solución de controversias entre inversores y Estados, a fin de evitar litigios, a partir de un mayor número de tratados de inversión y una creciente familiaridad con el arbitraje internacional entre los expertos jurídicos y el menor temor a los litigios administrativos.…”

“…Por su parte, para el autor Zhu et al (2018) en la ciudad de Hangzhou capital de la provincia de Zhejiang en la República Popular China, efectúa un análisis que surge del reasentamiento humano partiendo de la perspectiva de la justicia espacial y la relación con la asignación de los recursos públicos urbanos que consecuentemente genera la problemática planteada cuyo trasfondo es la pérdida de suelo agrícola y la expansión de zonas urbanísticas y como ello desde el enfoque de política espacial para que ambas no colisionen porque eso es lo que en concreto genera los problemas legales en el ámbito administrativo y por cierto previamente a ello los conflictos con la policía por las expropiaciones a que hubo lugar a raíz de la colisión de estos ámbitos territoriales en mención apremiados por la explosión demográfica, que no entiende de desequilibrio que se genera en la administración de justicia espacial que lucha por una Rev. Cient.…”

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“…The suggestion is that the implications of displacement and forced resettlement, and the ramifications for urban sustainability, are not fully understood, giving rise to the urban land debate, contemporaneously (Shannon et al, 2018). The contradictory and unregulated process of sustainable urbanization is evidenced in the fact that an estimated 250-300 million people worldwide have been displaced over the past 20 years because of government land acquisition for development (Zhu et al, 2018). The conceptual dissonance articulated earlier in this section between 'eco-friendly practices' vs 'steady-state economy' adds another layer to the concerns about how to achieve sustainability.…”

Assessing Inter-Administrative Cooperation in Urban Public Services: A Case Study of River Municipalities in the Internal Border Area between Aragon and Catalonia (Spain)

“…Here, the relationship between the core and the periphery can take on particular importance. Thus, suburbs usually experience complex problems related to a UPS deficit [20][21][22], and rural areas with low population density likewise present problems of accessibility for UPS [23][24][25][26], typified by few transportation and mobility resources [27,28]; an intermittent water supply system [29,30]; and scarce or remote health facilities [31][32][33], schools [34,35], and police and fire stations [36,37]. Indeed, various studies propose an enhanced distribution of UPS in rural areas based on a location-allocation approach using Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques [38][39][40][41].…”