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Yuepeng Zhou
School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

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Journal article
Published: 31 December 2019 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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The study on soil organic matter (SOM) is of great importance to regional cultivated land use and protection. Based on data collected via continuous and high-density soil samples (0-20 cm) and socio-economic data collected from household survey and local bureau of statistics, this study employs geostatistics and economic statistical methods to investigate the spatial-temporal variation of SOM contents during 1980-2010 in the urban fringe of Sujiatun district in Shenyang City, China. We find that: (1) as to temporal variation, SOM contents in the study sites decreased from 30.88 g/kg in 1980 to 22.63 g/kg in 2000. It further declined to 20.07 g/kg in 2010; (2) in terms of spatial variation, the closer to city center, the more decline of SOM contents. Contrarily, SOM contents could even rise in outer suburb area; and (3) SOM content variation may be closely related to human factors such as farmers' land use target and behaviour including inputs of chemical and organic fertilizers, types of crops and etc. These findings are conductive to grasp the overall trend of SOM variation and the influence of farmers' land use behaviour on it. Furthermore, they could provide support for policymakers to agricultural planning and land use monitoring, which consequently aids the improvement of soil quality and food production in the urban fringe areas.

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HongBin Liu; Shunting Li; Yuepeng Zhou. Spatial-Temporal Variability of Soil Organic Matter in Urban Fringe over 30 Years: A Case Study in Northeast China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 17, 292 .

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HongBin Liu, Shunting Li, Yuepeng Zhou. Spatial-Temporal Variability of Soil Organic Matter in Urban Fringe over 30 Years: A Case Study in Northeast China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 17 (1):292.

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HongBin Liu; Shunting Li; Yuepeng Zhou. 2019. "Spatial-Temporal Variability of Soil Organic Matter in Urban Fringe over 30 Years: A Case Study in Northeast China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 1: 292.

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Published: 30 May 2019 in Land Use Policy
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The price mechanism plays an important role in allocating resources and enhancing economic efficiency and equity of land markets. In this paper, we examine the impacts of social relations between rental partners and public interventions imposed by local governments or village collectives on land rent deviation and discuss efficiency and equity impacts as well. Household-level data collected in 2014 covering 907 households in 30 villages in Jiangsu Province, China, are used for empirical analysis. We find that social relations based on blood ties and geographical location increase the levels of land rent deviation and lead to a loss of efficiency and equity of the segmented land rental market. However, public interventions, i.e., land use limitations, collective permission and collective organization, may contribute to reducing land rent deviation and improving the efficiency and equity of the market. Further evidence suggests that public interventions induce land rental transactions among partners other than relatives or familiar villagers.

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Liang Tang; Xianlei Ma; Yuepeng Zhou; Xiaoping Shi; Jia Ma. Social relations, public interventions and land rent deviation: Evidence from Jiangsu Province in China. Land Use Policy 2019, 86, 406 -420.

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Liang Tang, Xianlei Ma, Yuepeng Zhou, Xiaoping Shi, Jia Ma. Social relations, public interventions and land rent deviation: Evidence from Jiangsu Province in China. Land Use Policy. 2019; 86 ():406-420.

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Liang Tang; Xianlei Ma; Yuepeng Zhou; Xiaoping Shi; Jia Ma. 2019. "Social relations, public interventions and land rent deviation: Evidence from Jiangsu Province in China." Land Use Policy 86, no. : 406-420.

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Published: 15 March 2019 in Natural Resources Forum
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The decentralization of property rights is the focus of the forest tenure reforms in several developing countries. In China, it was achieved by the launch of a new round of collective forest tenure reform beginning in 2003, which provided farmers with more integrated and secure forestland rights. Drawing on household data collected in Jiangxi province in 2011 and 2013, this paper examines the impacts of households’ recognition of property rights and improved tenure security on forestland rental activities. Our empirical results show that households with higher perceptions of more complete use rights and mortgage rights have a lower probability and intensity of renting‐in land, while households with lower expectations of future forestland redistribution or expropriation are more likely to rent in forestland and more of it. These results imply that the development of a forestland rental market leading to better forest management requires an integrated forestland management approach consisting of decentralization of property rights and village governance. In particular, the central government may further clarify the rights and obligations affiliated to forestland ownership, contractual rights, and management rights; while the village collective may shift from direct intervention in the integrity and security of forestland rights to the supervision and protection of decentralized forestland rights to increase efficiency from the decentralization of property rights.

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Yuepeng Zhou; Xiaoping Shi; Dengyan Ji; Xianlei Ma; Satish Chand. Property rights integrity, tenure security and forestland rental market participation: Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China. Natural Resources Forum 2019, 43, 95 -110.

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Yuepeng Zhou, Xiaoping Shi, Dengyan Ji, Xianlei Ma, Satish Chand. Property rights integrity, tenure security and forestland rental market participation: Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China. Natural Resources Forum. 2019; 43 (2):95-110.

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Yuepeng Zhou; Xiaoping Shi; Dengyan Ji; Xianlei Ma; Satish Chand. 2019. "Property rights integrity, tenure security and forestland rental market participation: Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China." Natural Resources Forum 43, no. 2: 95-110.

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Published: 22 November 2018 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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During the last 40 years, China has undergone rapid urbanization which has resulted in land degradation and a decrease in land. Cultivated land protection has thus become one of the most active and important aspects of land science. This study presents a pressure-response-impact (PRI) framework which may reveal the inter-correlations among households’ land-use behavior and cultivated land quality change in the process of rapid urbanization in China. The structural equation model (SEM) has been applied using a household survey dataset collected in 2015 in Sujiatun district, Shenyang city, Liaoning province. The results show that: (1) there is a complex causal relationship between the latent variables urbanization, household land-use behavior and cultivated land quality (i.e., urbanization → land-use behavior → land quality), which supports our PRI conceptual framework; (2) the changes of external social-economic context stemming from urbanization are the major cause of land-use behavior variance; (3) land quality is mostly affected by farmers’ land-use behavior including land-use pattern, land-use degree and land-input intensity, in particular the growing of cash crops (GCC, associated with land use pattern) and capital input per unit of farmland (LII, associated with land input intensity). These findings are of some theoretical and practical significance. Theoretically, they add to the current literature by identifying the roles of sociological factors and farmers’ land-use behavior in the process of land quality protection using a PRI framework. Practically, measures should be taken to reasonably set the prices of agricultural products, promote the development of the land rental market and increase the comparative revenue of agricultural production, so as to stimulate incentives to farming and land quality protection.

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HongBin Liu; Yuepeng Zhou. Urbanization, Land Use Behavior and Land Quality in Rural China: An Analysis Based on Pressure-Response-Impact Framework and SEM Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2018, 15, 2621 .

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HongBin Liu, Yuepeng Zhou. Urbanization, Land Use Behavior and Land Quality in Rural China: An Analysis Based on Pressure-Response-Impact Framework and SEM Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2018; 15 (12):2621.

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HongBin Liu; Yuepeng Zhou. 2018. "Urbanization, Land Use Behavior and Land Quality in Rural China: An Analysis Based on Pressure-Response-Impact Framework and SEM Approach." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 12: 2621.

Journal article
Published: 11 June 2018 in Sustainability
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of land property rights integrity, subdivided into use rights, mortgage rights, and transfer rights, on household perceptions of long-term tenure security in China. To this end, we establish a theoretical framework that links China’s collective forest tenure reforms undertaken since 2003 to property rights integrity and two sources of tenure (in)security based on property rights theory: forestland reallocation and expropriation. Probit models are applied in the empirical analysis to household data collected in Jiangxi province in 2011 and 2013. The results indicate that household perceptions of tenure insecurity resulting from forestland reallocation expectations are affected by transfer rights, whereas household perceptions of insecurity resulting from forestland expropriation expectations are not affected by forestland rights. We thus suggest that it is crucial for policymakers to identify the sources of local property rights insecurity before they take steps to strengthen land tenure security. This paper contributes to the available literature on the relationship between property rights integrity and tenure security by identifying different sources of tenure insecurity, emphasizing the effect of property rights integrity on long-term tenure security, and taking into account the potential endogeneity problem.

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Yuepeng Zhou; Xianlei Ma; Dengyan Ji; Nico Heerink; Xiaoping Shi; HongBin Liu. Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1956 .

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Yuepeng Zhou, Xianlei Ma, Dengyan Ji, Nico Heerink, Xiaoping Shi, HongBin Liu. Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1956.

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Yuepeng Zhou; Xianlei Ma; Dengyan Ji; Nico Heerink; Xiaoping Shi; HongBin Liu. 2018. "Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1956.

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Published: 07 June 2018 in Sustainability
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of farmers’ cognition of cultivated land quality protection (CLQP) on their behavioral response to land use practices. To this end, this paper establishes a theoretical framework linking farmers’ cognition (on CLQP status, policies and patterns) to their behavioral response (choices of farming methods, land inputs and agricultural waste disposal methods). A field survey was conducted in suburban areas in Liaoning province, Northeast China. A total of 240 households were selected using stratified random sampling. Results show that: (i) in regards to household cognition on CLQP, although a majority of households agree that CLQP is important and have a strong willingness to protect cultivated land quality, their cognition on the future prospect of CLQP is not optimistic; (ii) with regard to household responses to land use practices, a number of households have realized the importance of crop rotation, however, the use of chemical fertilizers is mostly based on past experience and is often excessive. Besides, the disposal of agricultural waste is inappropriate; (iii) household cognition on CLQP policies is found to be the most powerful factor that could lead to an improvement of CLQP practices. It is thus concluded that the government should help households adopt effective farming methods which are environmentally-friendly and sustainable by enhancing publicity of CLQP policies and strengthening farmers’ confidence in CLQP.

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HongBin Liu; Yuepeng Zhou. Farmers’ Cognition and Behavioral Response towards Cultivated Land Quality Protection in Northeast China. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1905 .

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HongBin Liu, Yuepeng Zhou. Farmers’ Cognition and Behavioral Response towards Cultivated Land Quality Protection in Northeast China. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1905.

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HongBin Liu; Yuepeng Zhou. 2018. "Farmers’ Cognition and Behavioral Response towards Cultivated Land Quality Protection in Northeast China." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1905.