Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns
Against the backdrop of rural deprivation during the rapid urbanization of China since the end of the previous century, rural renewal has been regarded as a vital strategy for facilitating rural sustainability. Rural renewal in contemporary China involves activities that replan, consolidate, and red...
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| description | Against the backdrop of rural deprivation during the rapid urbanization of China since the end of the previous century, rural renewal has been regarded as a vital strategy for facilitating rural sustainability. Rural renewal in contemporary China involves activities that replan, consolidate, and redevelop the extant and idle rural construction land and then convert such land for alternative uses, including new rural settlement construction and rural industry development. However, given the regionally decentralized authoritarian (RDA) regime of China, i.e., a combination of political centralization and economic regional decentralization, the governance of rural renewal and its performance show great diversity. The objective of this study was to explore and elucidate the underlying patterns of sustainable rural renewal. Thus, from the social-ecological systems (SES) perspective, an archetype analysis was conducted based on primary data from 27 cases from the eastern, central, and western parts of China. In total, eight archetypical patterns were extracted, and the following three overarching implications were observed: (1) a governance system aligning with the attributes of rural land resources, the characteristics of actors, and the properties of interactions is essential for sustainable rural renewal; (2) decentralized or self-organized governance emerges to facilitate sustainable rural renewal; and (3) a long-term perspective of designing and enforcing rural renewal and distinctive land resource endowment contribute to rural sustainability. These findings may benefit China and other regions pursuing rural sustainability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb54902c187a40bab589bcdb542be3742022-12-21T22:58:49ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872019-09-012433210.5751/ES-11069-24033211069Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patternsRongyu Wang0Klaus Eisenack1Rong Tan2School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaResource Economics Group, Humboldt-UniversitäSchool of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaAgainst the backdrop of rural deprivation during the rapid urbanization of China since the end of the previous century, rural renewal has been regarded as a vital strategy for facilitating rural sustainability. Rural renewal in contemporary China involves activities that replan, consolidate, and redevelop the extant and idle rural construction land and then convert such land for alternative uses, including new rural settlement construction and rural industry development. However, given the regionally decentralized authoritarian (RDA) regime of China, i.e., a combination of political centralization and economic regional decentralization, the governance of rural renewal and its performance show great diversity. The objective of this study was to explore and elucidate the underlying patterns of sustainable rural renewal. Thus, from the social-ecological systems (SES) perspective, an archetype analysis was conducted based on primary data from 27 cases from the eastern, central, and western parts of China. In total, eight archetypical patterns were extracted, and the following three overarching implications were observed: (1) a governance system aligning with the attributes of rural land resources, the characteristics of actors, and the properties of interactions is essential for sustainable rural renewal; (2) decentralized or self-organized governance emerges to facilitate sustainable rural renewal; and (3) a long-term perspective of designing and enforcing rural renewal and distinctive land resource endowment contribute to rural sustainability. These findings may benefit China and other regions pursuing rural sustainability.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art32/archetypeschinarural renewalsocial-ecological systemssustainability |
| spellingShingle | Rongyu Wang Klaus Eisenack Rong Tan Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns Ecology and Society archetypes china rural renewal social-ecological systems sustainability |
| title | Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns |
| title_full | Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns |
| title_short | Sustainable rural renewal in China: archetypical patterns |
| title_sort | sustainable rural renewal in china archetypical patterns |
| topic | archetypes china rural renewal social-ecological systems sustainability |
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