1st Edition
Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China Implications for Global Land Grabbing
Chapter 2: The rise of the ITP sector in Southern China
Chapter 3: The role of the state in the expansion of the ITP sector in China
Chapter 4: Foreign investments and their land access in the Industrial Tree Plantation Sector
Chapter 5: Changes in villagers’ livelihoods in Southern China within the rise of ITP sector
Chapter 6: The politics of inclusion and exclusion in the emerging industrial tree plantation sector in China
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Appendix
Index
Biography
Yunan Xu is a Post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She works for a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant awarded project "Commodity & Land Rushes and Regimes: Reshaping Five Spheres of Global Social Life (RRUSHES-5)". She obtained her PhD degree in development studies at ISS. Her research experience and interest revolve around land politics and commodity rush, and how these have shaped the politics of local natural resource control, food, as well as labour and livelihoods, with the geographic areas both in China and beyond (including the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative). She has published in top international academic journals, including Journal of Peasant Studies, Geoforum, Land use policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Third World Quarterly and Third World Thematics.
