Urban Agriculture as a Mechanism of Peasants Urbanization:A Case Study of the Tea Industry in Hangzhou under Financial Crisis
Global financial crisis triggered by the U.S. sub prime mortgage crisis has had a great impact on the process of Chinas urbanization. Under this background, the exploration of the functions of urban agriculture in the process of urbanization has become a hot topic with profound meanings. The versatility of urban agriculture has been known to all; however, it is of fresh opinions to explore its urbanizational functions as a mechanism of peasants urbanization. Founded upon the case study of Hangzhou tea industry, this paper mainly discusses the functional impact of urban agriculture on the process of the urbanization of peasants, and peri-urban peasants in particular. The discuss includes functional release of financial pressure, the providing of jobs vacancy to assist the privileged, the raise of communication opportunities between new and old citizens, the cultivation of modern scientific consciousness, the building up of cultural and management mechanism of urban district, and the upgrading of the acceptance rates on the side of the senior citizens. Furthermore, this paper raises a policy proposal of assisting peasants urbanization with the support of urban agriculture, expecting to reduce negative influence of Chinas urbanization under financial crisis.
Urban agriculture Peasants urbanization Functional mechanism Countermeasure
ZHENG Xiao-dong
School of Public Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, 310018
国际会议
2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)
澳大利亚堪培拉
英文
56-62
2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）