Rural Collective Construction Land Transfer Based on Stakeholder Analysis

Abstract

This paper discusses the use of a market-driven technique -transfer of development rights (TDR) -to preserve land from development while guaranteeing the rights of property owners. While the technique is often used in the United States, Europe has a lot more urgency in land preservation but it is still lagging in the use of market based instruments such as the transfer of development rights. This paper explores the economic arguments favoring the use of TDR programs, discusses the difficulties in implementing these programs in Europe, where commandand-control regulation has been preferred in land preservation to market-based solutions, and presents tentative hypotheses to explain the adoption of TDR programs in local communities. Preliminary data collected for TDR programs in Florida supports some of the arguments presented and encourages researchers to extend this empirical analysis to European countries.

Untangle the Complex Stakeholder Relationships in Rural Settlement Consolidation in China: A Social Network Approach

“…The village committee has three primary concerns. The first is to encourage growth in the local collective economy and prioritize rural collectively owned construction land and local development [32]. The second is to pursue upgrades in the village infrastructure and public services to thereby improve living and production conditions [18,30].…”

“…The RSC involves social, economic, and ecological aspects [25,31]. There are an increasing number of studies that consider engineering as a fourth aspect [30,32,41,90]. The engineering aspect is usually embedded in a "project," with the goal of achieving land use transition, space restructuring, and living conditions and infrastructure improvements [15,18,42].…”

“…The coordination of stakeholder relationships can smoothly promote land use transition and reduce the conflict associated with the RSC process [22,32]. Land-use conflicts could be resolved by cooperation between planners and the village council [33].…”