Print Email Facebook Twitter Reworking land reform Title Reworking land reform: A credibility approach to property rights in China's forest sector Author Krul, K. (TU Delft Organisation and Governance) Contributor Correljé, A. (promotor) Hermans, L.M. (copromotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2021-09-21 Abstract Why do land reforms rarely achieve their desired effects? This dissertation posits that a key to solve this question lies in a closer understanding of the specific workings of property rights. The idea is developed empirically in China’s forest sector, where one of the world’s largest land-reform undertakings in modern times was initiated under the Collective Forest Tenure Reform. The study offers a credibility approach to focus on the relations between property rights and their embedded political, legal, and social structures. Three phases of reform are selected for further empirical investigation: The establishment, enforcement, and exercising of property rights. The dissertation empirically demonstrates how each phase is critical for the functioning and credibility of reform objectives, and ultimately in influencing socioeconomic development in the Chinese forest sector and beyond. Subject Land reformProperty rightsInstitutional economicsCredibilityNatural resource management To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:6ced7129-362c-4a05-91eb-4e9b0e3924b3 ISBN 978-94-6384-255-6 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2021 K. Krul Files PDF krul_2021_reworking_land_reform.pdf 6.03 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6ced7129-362c-4a05-91eb-4e9b0e3924b3/datastream/OBJ/view