What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China

Tan, Rong; Hu, Rumei; Vatn, Arild

doi:10.1080/23812346.2021.1940690

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“…According to the negative effects of small-scale farmers in financial capital, it is necessary to increase farmers' income and consequently alleviate poverty to improve food security. 59 Therefore, it is recommended to cultivate higher-value products. 60 Moreover, it is suggested that those small-scale farmers participate in a variety of income-generating activities.…”

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Contribution of small‐scale farmers to global food security: a meta‐analysis

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In this study, the impacts of small‐scale farmers on food security enhancement were estimated in three dimensions of food availability, food access and food utilization. In the current study, a systematic review and meta‐analysis have been performed to synthesize results from 75 original articles. It includes the pooling of data that quantitatively investigate whether or not causal links characterized in the original articles remain valid across a broader scope of the literature. The findings show that farmers who are small‐scale in natural/physical capital would lead to higher median food production and agricultural productivity, compared with small‐scale farmers in financial capital, at about 19% and 15%, respectively. Meta‐regression results indicate that small‐scale farmers in natural/physical capital have significantly positive effects on the average agricultural productivity, food income and biofortification. By contrast, farmers who are small‐scale in financial capital have negative effects on food security. The influential role of these small‐scale farmers should also be considered since food insecurity leads to socio‐economic implications. Therefore, it is recommended to cultivate higher value crops, to participate in various income‐generating activities such as fisheries and forestry, and to pay agricultural credits. The effect of the size of small‐scale farmers on global food security is very useful for policymakers to plan for a world without hunger. © 2022 Society of Chemical Industry.

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“…Governance is the mechanism by which power and transparency are established and practiced over time, and it is also about making decisions and maintaining the conditions for their successful execution [148]. It concerns who makes choices and how, particularly in regard to educational practices and evolving social structures; it also concerns who occupies positions of authority and responsibility and who should be held accountable [149,150].…”

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Smart Land Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework

Azadi

Robinson

Barati

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Global environmental governance (GEG) is one of the world’s major attempts to address climate change issues through mitigation and adaptation strategies. Despite a significant improvement in GEG’s structural, human, and financial capital, the global commons are decaying at an unprecedented pace. Among the global commons, land has the largest share in GEG. Land use change, which is rooted in increasing populations and urbanization, has a significant role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a response, land governance and, consequently, good land governance, have arisen as normative concepts emerging from a series of success factors (notably economic development, environmental conservation, and social justice) to achieve greater sustainability. However, global land governance has shown little success in helping GEG due to the lack of intellectual and flexible thinking over governing the land sector. Consequently, reforming land governance “in a smart way” is one of the most critical actions that could contribute to achieving GEG goals. Hence, we propose a smart land governance (SLG) system that will be well addressed, understood, and modeled in a systemic and dynamic way. A smart system may be smart enough to adapt to different contexts and intellectual responses in a timely fashion. Accordingly, SLG is able to promote shared growth and solve many land sector problems by considering all principles of good land governance. Therefore, in order to enhance adaptive land governance systems, efficient land administration and management are required. This study’s outcomes will raise the comprehension of the problems of land management, providing an excellent framework to help land planners and policy-makers, as well as the development of strategic principles with respect to the principal multidimensional components of SLG.

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“…Fiscal capacity refers to local governments’ spendable finance in pursuing land development (He and Wu, 2005). Distrustful of private enterprise, local governments with strong fiscal capacity often select state agents instead of market agents for land development (Li and Chiu, 2020; Tan et al, 2021). In contrast, public–private partnerships appeal to local governments with weak fiscal capacity for land development (Cheng et al, 2018).…”

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Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta

Zhang

Zhou

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Urban Studies

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Ubiquitous in fast-urbanising China, land-driven urban growth is increasingly inter-urban in nature – a trend that is underexplored in the literature. Grounded in a conceptual framework concerning the rescaling of the land regime, this study probes the unfolding land development processes of city-regionalism. Key findings of an examination of the Shenzhen–Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone in the Pearl River Delta are as follows: land regime rescaling is an emergent driving force for city-region making in China; the rescaled land regime centres on uneven capacities among the states of cooperating cities and benefit sharing (immediate land-related profit and potential long-term profit); provincial government engagement is fundamental to legitimatising this contested process; the rescaled land regime has been orchestrated by state interests in land development, rather than business interests released by marketisation, spawning a ‘stretching’ state territoriality of the central city. This article furthers the field’s understanding of a ‘world of city-regionalisms’ through a situated account of emerging city-regionalism characterised by land development in the Chinese context.

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What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China

Cited by 27 publications

References 46 publications

Contribution of small‐scale farmers to global food security: a meta‐analysis

Contribution of small‐scale farmers to global food security: a meta‐analysis

Smart Land Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework

Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta

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