Giuseppina Siciliano
| Giuseppina Siciliano is a post-doctoral researcher within the Faculty of Regional Planning at University IUAV of Venice. She holds a Ph.D. in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development from Universita’ Ca’ Foscari, Venice and an MSc in Ecological Economics at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. She works in the field of public policy evaluation, environmental management and sustainability with research experiences and fieldwork in rural areas of China, Mexico and Italy. She is lecturer in Political Economy of the Environment (University of Siena, Department of Political Economy) and in Planning and Evaluation Techniques (University IUAV of Venice). |
Research on Land-grabbing:
The social and environmental implications of urbanization strategies and domestic land grabbing in China. The case of Chongming island
The aim of this paper is to explore the social and environmental implications of urbanization strategies and domestic land grabbing in China. Domestic land grabbing refers to the process of land expropriation put in place by governments within their country borders. In China these are the cases of urban sprawl and land commodification for food security and agricultural modernization. While a number of studies have documented directly or indirectly the consequences of domestic land grabbing from urban sprawl, little has been done to reveal the impacts of land conversions due to agricultural modernization in rural areas. This aspect need further study in order to provide better insights into the relationship between rural development, urbanization and land expropriation. Drawing on a case study from a rural area in east China, this paper analyses the impacts of farmland expropriation due to domestic land grabbing in relation to: (i) land tenure rights and compensation measures; (ii) rural workers livelihood and the hukou registration system; (iii) environmental degradation.
