Canute Vandermeer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Canute Vandermeer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Canute |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandermeer |
| SIGNATURE | VANDERMEER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assignments of Agricultural Land Use Rights to Households in Tongan County, Fujian, China
In the household responsibility system of agricultural production, villager group members have rights to use farmland, and leaders of villager groups assign farmland to households. Because the qualities of a group? land differ from place to place, each household receives use rights to fields in several locations. This study examines the processes by which leaders in two areas of Tongan County, Fujian Province, identified the individual fields tha…
East Asia
Water Thievery in a Rice Irrigation System in Taiwan
Water thefts and conflicts are more common in some irrigation systems, or in some parts of a single irrigation system, than in others. Water thievery in the Nan-hung canal system in Taiwan is analyzed through an examination of the need to steal, the opportunities to steal, farmer awareness of opportunities to steal, and farmer willingness to steal. Water supply, water rights customs, water control methods, the location of houses, and the size of …
Communist China's Agriculture
Changing Water Control in a Taiwanese Rice-Field Irrigation System 1
In the early 1950's Taiwanese farmers using the Nan-hung Canal for irrigation learned that rice cultivation required less water than they had thought. After several features of their irrigation system were altered, they changed their water control methods as practiced during periods of low water supply and so allowed significant changes in cropping patterns during the first rice crop season. Previously, farmers whose fields took water from the en…
Land Property Data on Taiwan
A wealth of information about individual land properties on Taiwan appears as part of the land records of various Chinese government agencies. The records contain reliable and accessible data on lowland properties since 1904 and on upland properties since about 1925. The purposes of this paper are to describe the information and its sources and to indicate some of the types of problems related to land properties which bear examination
Population Patterns on the Island of Cebu, the Philippines
Cebu has long been one of the most heavily populated Philippine islands. Prior to 1900 the population growth rate on Cebu was higher than that of the whole Philippines because of a relative absene of malaria and the presence of a good harbor at Cebu City. The island experienced its most rapid population growth as an agricultural area during the nineteenth century. Since Cebu has become relatively so heavily populated, the major factors which affe…
Population Patterns on the Island of Cebu, the Philippines
Cebu has long been one of the most heavily populated Philippine islands. Prior to 1900 the population growth rate on Cebu was higher than that of the whole Philippines because of a relative absene of malaria and the presence of a good harbor at Cebu City. The island experienced its most rapid population growth as an agricultural area during the nineteenth century. Since Cebu has become relatively so heavily populated, the major factors which affe…
Changing Water Control in a Taiwanese Rice-Field Irrigation System 1
In the early 1950's Taiwanese farmers using the Nan-hung Canal for irrigation learned that rice cultivation required less water than they had thought. After several features of their irrigation system were altered, they changed their water control methods as practiced during periods of low water supply and so allowed significant changes in cropping patterns during the first rice crop season. Previously, farmers whose fields took water from the en…
Land Property Data on Taiwan
A wealth of information about individual land properties on Taiwan appears as part of the land records of various Chinese government agencies. The records contain reliable and accessible data on lowland properties since 1904 and on upland properties since about 1925. The purposes of this paper are to describe the information and its sources and to indicate some of the types of problems related to land properties which bear examination
Water Thievery in a Rice Irrigation System in Taiwan
Water thefts and conflicts are more common in some irrigation systems, or in some parts of a single irrigation system, than in others. Water thievery in the Nan-hung canal system in Taiwan is analyzed through an examination of the need to steal, the opportunities to steal, farmer awareness of opportunities to steal, and farmer willingness to steal. Water supply, water rights customs, water control methods, the location of houses, and the size of …
Population Patterns on the Island of Cebu, the Philippines
Cebu has long been one of the most heavily populated Philippine islands. Prior to 1900 the population growth rate on Cebu was higher than that of the whole Philippines because of a relative absene of malaria and the presence of a good harbor at Cebu City. The island experienced its most rapid population growth as an agricultural area during the nineteenth century. Since Cebu has become relatively so heavily populated, the major factors which affe…
Changing Water Control in a Taiwanese Rice-Field Irrigation System 1
In the early 1950's Taiwanese farmers using the Nan-hung Canal for irrigation learned that rice cultivation required less water than they had thought. After several features of their irrigation system were altered, they changed their water control methods as practiced during periods of low water supply and so allowed significant changes in cropping patterns during the first rice crop season. Previously, farmers whose fields took water from the en…
Land Property Data on Taiwan
A wealth of information about individual land properties on Taiwan appears as part of the land records of various Chinese government agencies. The records contain reliable and accessible data on lowland properties since 1904 and on upland properties since about 1925. The purposes of this paper are to describe the information and its sources and to indicate some of the types of problems related to land properties which bear examination
Water Thievery in a Rice Irrigation System in Taiwan
Water thefts and conflicts are more common in some irrigation systems, or in some parts of a single irrigation system, than in others. Water thievery in the Nan-hung canal system in Taiwan is analyzed through an examination of the need to steal, the opportunities to steal, farmer awareness of opportunities to steal, and farmer willingness to steal. Water supply, water rights customs, water control methods, the location of houses, and the size of …
Communist China's Agriculture
East Asia
Assignments of Agricultural Land Use Rights to Households in Tongan County, Fujian, China
In the household responsibility system of agricultural production, villager group members have rights to use farmland, and leaders of villager groups assign farmland to households. Because the qualities of a group? land differ from place to place, each household receives use rights to fields in several locations. This study examines the processes by which leaders in two areas of Tongan County, Fujian Province, identified the individual fields tha…
Geography (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Business (3 works) · China (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)