Dilemmas Between the Protection of Lung and Stomach: Land Use Conflicts in Rapid Urbanization Process of Pearl River Delta

Abstract

Land use conflicts (short for LUC) are complicated social phenomenon. Firstly, they usually involved various stakeholders, such as administrative institutions, industrial or commercial corporations, urban residents and indigenous villagers. Secondly, they usually involved various origins, such as disputes of interest, difference in value or ideology and deficiencies in procedure designing. Thirdly, performance and types of LUC are changed in various ways in different periods with difference frequency, intensity and resolutions. Fourthly, LUC verified in different locations of space. For example, key affairs in city center are households’ settlement and economic compensation, while primary affairs in urban-rural fringe are more complicated in employment of indigenous villagers, social security and distribution of remaining sites. Under the guidance of urban political economic theory, the paper tried to deeply analysis and interprets these social phenomenons. Taking the case of Haizhu district of Guangzhou city, the paper studied on main aspects of LUC, such as division of types, mechanism analysis, origins and roots, governance mechanism.