Journal of Rural Studies is Elsevier's leading international academic journal in the field of rural development studies. It is an interdisciplinary publication covering rural geography, rural sociology, agricultural and rural economics, planning and related disciplines, including contemporary rural society, economy and culture, the definition and representation of rurality, rural policy-making, implementation and debate, and human interaction with the rural environment. , agricultural and rural economics, planning and related disciplines in an interdisciplinary publication.
In 2016, the journal published a special issue on Rural Restructuring in China in Volume 47, Part B. The issue was published by the journal's editor-in-chief, Aberystwyth, UK. Under the guidance of the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Michael Woods of Aberystwyth University, UK, the special issue was edited by Researcher Long Hualou and Researcher Liu Yanshi as Guest Editors-in-Chief, and published a total of 25 academic papers related to Rural Restructuring in China in 2016, with a total of 80 authors and their team members from renowned scholars and their teams in the field of Rural Development in five countries, namely, China, the United States, Sweden, Australia, and Germany. More than 80 authors.
Rapid urbanisation has driven dramatic changes in China's rural areas. Changes in key factors of rural development, such as labour, land and capital, have had a far-reaching impact on rural areas, and have further driven the evolution of the production, living, ecological and cultural functions of rural areas. Under the intervention of local subjects, the elements of rural development in some regions have been reorganised, and the structure and functions of rural territorial systems have been optimised, leading to the restructuring of the spatial pattern and socio-economic form of rural territories. The 25 papers collected in this special issue, which span the disciplines of rural geography, rural sociology, agricultural and rural economics, and planning, focus on the practice of rural reconfiguration in contemporary China. After the keynote paper, "Configuration and Management of Key Resources in Rural China in the Context of Reconfiguration: Problems and Prospects", the special issue sets up a series of papers, including the papers on "Space Following the keynote paper "Allocation and Management of Key Resources in the Chinese Countryside in the Context of Reconstruction: Problems and Prospects", there will be three columns: "Spatial Reconstruction", "Economic Reconstruction", and "Social Reconstruction", with eight papers in each column. "The papers in the column of "Spatial Reconstruction" mainly dealt with the optimisation and restructuring of rural settlements, spatial and temporal changes of urban and rural land use, spatial reconstruction of ecologically fragile mountainous areas, land remediation based on community participation, and spatial reconstruction of land for poverty alleviation. The papers in the column of "Economic Reconstruction" mainly discuss the international comparison of rural revitalisation pathways, the impact of online shopping on rural life, the abandonment of arable land in the process of rural reconstruction, the agricultural economy and the transfer of rural labour, technological advancement and the efficiency of food production, and urbanisation and the livelihood of rural households; the papers in the column of "Social Reconstruction" mainly discuss the spatial and temporal changes of land use in the process of urbanisation. The papers in the column of "Social Reconstruction" mainly deal with the transformation of village collectives in the process of urbanisation, the allocation of rural educational resources, the investment efficiency of public resources in mountainous villages, the adaptive capacity of rural communities in mountainous areas in post-disaster reconstruction, the decline and extinction of the traditional rural settlement culture, the social dynamics and spatial transformation of villages in the outskirts of the city and the impact of aging on the rural economy.
As mentioned in the Editorial of the special issue, China's rural restructuring is deeply influenced by the national macroeconomic development strategy, and it is necessary to re-draw the framework of government intervention in rural socio-economic development; China's villages are being dissolved into the global socio-economic network, and it is necessary to fully understand the impact of globalisation on the restructuring of China's villages. In view of China's new stage of development, more systematic research should be focused on the formulation and effective implementation of rural development policies, and it should also be noted that the volatility and complexity of China's rural restructuring will make further research on rural restructuring even more challenging.
JRS_47_PB_Edited by Hualou Long and Yansui Liu.pdf
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