Gregory Veeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Veeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Veeck |
| SIGNATURE | VEECK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Grassland protection policy in China: Post-Wenchuan economic and environmental change in Aba prefecture, Sichuan Province
Spatial and temporal changes in Halal food sales and consumption. A case study of the city of Dearborn, Michigan
With a population of 3.5 million and growing in the US, Middle Eastern / North African (MENA) Americans are an integral part of the United States and the world. One of the main agents of cultural maintenance and support for the MENA American community are their ethnic food traditions, specifically Halal food. Since the introduction of Halal food in the US, sales and consumption of Halal products has increased immensely. This research seeks to ans…
Agricultural permanence in large Asian cities: A case study of Nanjing, China
Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu Province, has grown rapidly during the post-reform era and the pace of change placed tremendous pressure on the city's arable land resources. This case study of land use/land cover change (LU/LC) in Nanjing's Jiangning district assesses changes in agricultural land, production, and labor within the ten 2016-era jiedao (sub-district political units) of Jiangning from 2000 to 2015. This case study provides an…
Learning from Studs Terkel: Listening while making places and spaces for effective interviews during fieldwork
Human geographers use many types of research techniques, often in a mixed methods format where multiple approaches and technologies are incorporated in a single study. This reflects the synthetic nature of our discipline, one of its central tenets and a major strength vis-à-vis other disciplines. Interviews are essential to many of our projects, and successful interviews are predicated on successful listening. However, interviewing is as much abo…
The role of personal factors in attitudes toward the adoption of new consumption behaviors in developing food systems
Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country
GHOST CITIES OF CHINA: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country. By Wade Shepard. xii and 218 pp.; map, bibliog. London, U.K.: Zed Books, 2015. $19.76 (paper), isbn
The Economic Contributions of Agricultural Tourism in Michigan
Family farms have long generated income from agricultural tourism including U-picks, wagon rides, corn mazes and petting zoos, but contemporary agricultural tourism reflects much greater sophistication in terms of product variety, services, activities, and marketing. In Michigan, farm operators have moved beyond classic products and activities and the traditional consumer base. New sources of revenue derive from classes on beer, cider, mead and w…
China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor
Yongjun Zhao. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. i–ix and 161 pp., maps, tables, index. $98.96 cloth (ISBN 9781409428213); $109.95 electronic PDF (ISBN 9781409428220); $109.95 electronic ePUB (ISBN 978
China’s food security: Past success and future challenges
The rapid growth of China’s economy – averaging 9.1% per year for the 35 years since 1978 – has many implications for China’s domestic food and agriculture sector as well for the global food system. The more the nation’s economy expands, the more food is needed to feed an ever-growing middle class with significantly different consumption patterns than when the economic reforms began. Food security for China is not merely an agricultural, economic…
Chinese Engagement with Africa: The Case of Madagascar
Using field work in Madagascar as the foundation for a case study, two U.S.-based geographers examine the complex relations developing between many African nations and the Chinese government as well as ethnic Chinese citizens and guest-workers who live and work in Africa. The study investigates changes in the perceptions of Malagasy citizens of the Chinese presence and long-term effects of Chinese investments in Madagascar's economy. Although the…
China's Quiet Agricultural Revolution: Policy and Programs of the New Millennium
Two specialists on China's agricultural sector review the recent course of agrarian reform in the country since the year 2000. More specifically, they summarize the more significant policy changes occurring during the period 2000-2009 (including the rollout of major new programs and agricultural tax relief) while simultaneously tracking impressive improvements in a variety of standard indicators of agricultural performance and rural per capita in…
Westward ho: Chasing rural China across time and space
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGregory VeeckGregory Veeck is Professor in the Department of Geography, 3219 Wood Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5424
Chinese among Others: Emigration in Modern Times Philip A. Kuhn
(2009). Chinese among Others: Emigration in Modern Times Philip A. Kuhn. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 608-612
China's Exports and Imports of Agricultural Products under the WTO
An American economic geographer specializing in the agricultural sector of China's economy presents a study of that country's trade in agricultural products. The paper is focused on patterns of change in the regional distribution of agricultural and aquacultural exports and imports before and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Drawing on research during the course of a field trip in July 2008 and utilizing data compi…
Develop the West” Assessed: Economic and Environmental Change in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China 2000–2005
In late 1999, President Jiang Zemin requested that a comprehensive regional development campaign be designed and implemented to address growing disparities in income, development, and quality of life across three of China's macro-regions: eastern lowland China, central China, and western China. Through the resulting “Strategy of Developing China's West” Campaign, massive amounts of capital have been made available across the 12 provincial-order u…
Post-Wto Agriculture in East Asia: A Case Study of Apple Products
The Doha Round of the WTO has faltered in the face of the inability of signatory nations to come to agreement on trade in agricultural products. A case study of the apple trade in East Asia illustrates conditions facing small farmers and exporters of horticultural products throughout the world, and identifies barriers to trade and equity. Cumbersome import regulations, strictly enforced phytosanitary controls, uneven levels of domestic farm suppo…
Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development . Y. M. Yeung and Jianfa Shen, eds.; Agricultural Trade and Policy in China . Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds
(2005). Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development. Y. M. Yeung and Jianfa Shen, eds.; Agricultural Trade and Policy in China. Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Sustaining production and strengthening the agritourism product: Linkages among Michigan agritourism destinations
The Modern Chinese Farmer: Technical Adoptions and Marketing Innovations among Vegetable Farmers in Shijiazhuang, Hebei
A team of American and Chinese geographers investigates the technical changes, changes in markets, and new production methods that have allowed the profitable production of vegetables almost year-round near Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province on the North China Plain. Based on a case study of 160 farm households, and adopting a micro-economic approach, the authors analyze household data through regression analysis to determine the most important technic…
Talk Is Cheap: Cultural and Linguistic Fluency during Field Research
Consumer Segmentation and Changing Food Purchase Patterns in Nanjing, PRC
Challenges to Family Farming in China
Living Heritage: Vernacular Environment in China
Pessimism and pragmatism: Agricultural trade liberalisation from the perspective of South Korean farmers
Based on a survey sample of 483 farm households in three provinces of the Republic of Korea, we report on the perspectives of full‐time farmers regarding trade liberalisation, its effects on their lives, and the future of small‐scale farming. The report includes opinions obtained from interviews and the results of 27 Likert scale items in our field survey conducted in 1997. As the Korean government seeks to comply with GATT regulations by reducin…
The Impact of Environmental Degradation on Grain Production in China, 1975-1990
The sluggish rate of growth for China's grain production during the past decade is a major concern for agricultural planners. At the national level, the average rate of production fell to 1.8 percent per year from 1985 to 1990, after an average growth rate of 4.7 percent per year from 1978 to 1984. Supplies and application rates of critical farm inputs during 1985 to 1990 reached record levels, but had a disappointing effect on both yields and gr…
Sustaining production and strengthening the agritourism product: Linkages among Michigan agritourism destinations
Consumer Segmentation and Changing Food Purchase Patterns in Nanjing, PRC
Rural Economic Restructuring and Farm Household Income in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Economic reform and restructuring in China have resulted in substantial changes in how farmers earn their livings and how much they earn. Based on a neoclassical model of economic development and structural change as interpreted by Oshima (1983) for East Asia, we hypothesize that farmers in Jiangsu Province earn greater incomes from off-farm jobs associated with nearby cities and urban market centers. This income pattern, we believe, results in d…
China’s food security: Past success and future challenges
The rapid growth of China’s economy – averaging 9.1% per year for the 35 years since 1978 – has many implications for China’s domestic food and agriculture sector as well for the global food system. The more the nation’s economy expands, the more food is needed to feed an ever-growing middle class with significantly different consumption patterns than when the economic reforms began. Food security for China is not merely an agricultural, economic…
Talk Is Cheap: Cultural and Linguistic Fluency during Field Research
Chinese Engagement with Africa: The Case of Madagascar
Using field work in Madagascar as the foundation for a case study, two U.S.-based geographers examine the complex relations developing between many African nations and the Chinese government as well as ethnic Chinese citizens and guest-workers who live and work in Africa. The study investigates changes in the perceptions of Malagasy citizens of the Chinese presence and long-term effects of Chinese investments in Madagascar's economy. Although the…
The Impact of Environmental Degradation on Grain Production in China, 1975-1990
The sluggish rate of growth for China's grain production during the past decade is a major concern for agricultural planners. At the national level, the average rate of production fell to 1.8 percent per year from 1985 to 1990, after an average growth rate of 4.7 percent per year from 1978 to 1984. Supplies and application rates of critical farm inputs during 1985 to 1990 reached record levels, but had a disappointing effect on both yields and gr…
Agricultural permanence in large Asian cities: A case study of Nanjing, China
Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu Province, has grown rapidly during the post-reform era and the pace of change placed tremendous pressure on the city's arable land resources. This case study of land use/land cover change (LU/LC) in Nanjing's Jiangning district assesses changes in agricultural land, production, and labor within the ten 2016-era jiedao (sub-district political units) of Jiangning from 2000 to 2015. This case study provides an…
The Economic Contributions of Agricultural Tourism in Michigan
Family farms have long generated income from agricultural tourism including U-picks, wagon rides, corn mazes and petting zoos, but contemporary agricultural tourism reflects much greater sophistication in terms of product variety, services, activities, and marketing. In Michigan, farm operators have moved beyond classic products and activities and the traditional consumer base. New sources of revenue derive from classes on beer, cider, mead and w…
China's Exports and Imports of Agricultural Products under the WTO
An American economic geographer specializing in the agricultural sector of China's economy presents a study of that country's trade in agricultural products. The paper is focused on patterns of change in the regional distribution of agricultural and aquacultural exports and imports before and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Drawing on research during the course of a field trip in July 2008 and utilizing data compi…
Challenges to Family Farming in China
Pessimism and pragmatism: Agricultural trade liberalisation from the perspective of South Korean farmers
Based on a survey sample of 483 farm households in three provinces of the Republic of Korea, we report on the perspectives of full‐time farmers regarding trade liberalisation, its effects on their lives, and the future of small‐scale farming. The report includes opinions obtained from interviews and the results of 27 Likert scale items in our field survey conducted in 1997. As the Korean government seeks to comply with GATT regulations by reducin…
Spatial and temporal changes in Halal food sales and consumption. A case study of the city of Dearborn, Michigan
With a population of 3.5 million and growing in the US, Middle Eastern / North African (MENA) Americans are an integral part of the United States and the world. One of the main agents of cultural maintenance and support for the MENA American community are their ethnic food traditions, specifically Halal food. Since the introduction of Halal food in the US, sales and consumption of Halal products has increased immensely. This research seeks to ans…
The role of personal factors in attitudes toward the adoption of new consumption behaviors in developing food systems
Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country
GHOST CITIES OF CHINA: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country. By Wade Shepard. xii and 218 pp.; map, bibliog. London, U.K.: Zed Books, 2015. $19.76 (paper), isbn
China's Quiet Agricultural Revolution: Policy and Programs of the New Millennium
Two specialists on China's agricultural sector review the recent course of agrarian reform in the country since the year 2000. More specifically, they summarize the more significant policy changes occurring during the period 2000-2009 (including the rollout of major new programs and agricultural tax relief) while simultaneously tracking impressive improvements in a variety of standard indicators of agricultural performance and rural per capita in…
Post-Wto Agriculture in East Asia: A Case Study of Apple Products
The Doha Round of the WTO has faltered in the face of the inability of signatory nations to come to agreement on trade in agricultural products. A case study of the apple trade in East Asia illustrates conditions facing small farmers and exporters of horticultural products throughout the world, and identifies barriers to trade and equity. Cumbersome import regulations, strictly enforced phytosanitary controls, uneven levels of domestic farm suppo…
Development, regional equity, and political change in China
China's landmark “open door” policy that has received so much attention in the West has infused the accessible east coast of China with foreign capital, advanced technology, and of equal importance, new managerial and organizational systems. The result has been meteoric increases in exports, worker productivity, wages, and the general quality of material life. Within the major cities and their hinterlands along the coast, the resulting transforma…
Rural Economic Restructuring and Farm Household Income in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Economic reform and restructuring in China have resulted in substantial changes in how farmers earn their livings and how much they earn. Based on a neoclassical model of economic development and structural change as interpreted by Oshima (1983) for East Asia, we hypothesize that farmers in Jiangsu Province earn greater incomes from off-farm jobs associated with nearby cities and urban market centers. This income pattern, we believe, results in d…
The Extended Metropolis: Settlement Transition in Asia
Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic organization that is neither rural nor urban, but preserves essential ingredients of each. The landscap…
Variations in Agricultural Production and Efficiency in Newly Emerging Extended Metropolitan Regions of Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
Recent economic reforms and restructuring in China have resulted in significant changes in the nature and efficiency of farm production. In southern Jiangsu (SUNAN), a region developing and urbanizing rapidly, farm family income is highly dependent on off-farm employment. In places, this has led to stagnating agricultural production and productivity. Such a pattern appears consistent with experiences of other Asian countries undergoing structural…
Development, regional equity, and political change in China
China's landmark “open door” policy that has received so much attention in the West has infused the accessible east coast of China with foreign capital, advanced technology, and of equal importance, new managerial and organizational systems. The result has been meteoric increases in exports, worker productivity, wages, and the general quality of material life. Within the major cities and their hinterlands along the coast, the resulting transforma…
Terrace Construction and Productivity on Loessal Soils in Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province, PRC
Erosion is a pressing problem throughout rural China, but the problem is most severe within the Loess Plateau of north central China. The Loess Plateau is losing an average of one centimeter of soil each year due to erosion and related environmental problems. The eroded loess clogs irrigation systems, restricts navigation on all rivers within the region, fouls urban and industrial water systems, and for agriculture represents a loss of a vital re…
Indigenous Development of Multiple Cropping Systems in Jiange County, Sichuan, China
The Impact of Environmental Degradation on Grain Production in China, 1975-1990
The sluggish rate of growth for China's grain production during the past decade is a major concern for agricultural planners. At the national level, the average rate of production fell to 1.8 percent per year from 1985 to 1990, after an average growth rate of 4.7 percent per year from 1978 to 1984. Supplies and application rates of critical farm inputs during 1985 to 1990 reached record levels, but had a disappointing effect on both yields and gr…
Pessimism and pragmatism: Agricultural trade liberalisation from the perspective of South Korean farmers
Based on a survey sample of 483 farm households in three provinces of the Republic of Korea, we report on the perspectives of full‐time farmers regarding trade liberalisation, its effects on their lives, and the future of small‐scale farming. The report includes opinions obtained from interviews and the results of 27 Likert scale items in our field survey conducted in 1997. As the Korean government seeks to comply with GATT regulations by reducin…
Consumer Segmentation and Changing Food Purchase Patterns in Nanjing, PRC
Challenges to Family Farming in China
Living Heritage: Vernacular Environment in China
Talk Is Cheap: Cultural and Linguistic Fluency during Field Research
The Modern Chinese Farmer: Technical Adoptions and Marketing Innovations among Vegetable Farmers in Shijiazhuang, Hebei
A team of American and Chinese geographers investigates the technical changes, changes in markets, and new production methods that have allowed the profitable production of vegetables almost year-round near Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province on the North China Plain. Based on a case study of 160 farm households, and adopting a micro-economic approach, the authors analyze household data through regression analysis to determine the most important technic…
Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development . Y. M. Yeung and Jianfa Shen, eds.; Agricultural Trade and Policy in China . Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds
(2005). Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development. Y. M. Yeung and Jianfa Shen, eds.; Agricultural Trade and Policy in China. Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Sustaining production and strengthening the agritourism product: Linkages among Michigan agritourism destinations
Develop the West” Assessed: Economic and Environmental Change in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China 2000–2005
In late 1999, President Jiang Zemin requested that a comprehensive regional development campaign be designed and implemented to address growing disparities in income, development, and quality of life across three of China's macro-regions: eastern lowland China, central China, and western China. Through the resulting “Strategy of Developing China's West” Campaign, massive amounts of capital have been made available across the 12 provincial-order u…
Post-Wto Agriculture in East Asia: A Case Study of Apple Products
The Doha Round of the WTO has faltered in the face of the inability of signatory nations to come to agreement on trade in agricultural products. A case study of the apple trade in East Asia illustrates conditions facing small farmers and exporters of horticultural products throughout the world, and identifies barriers to trade and equity. Cumbersome import regulations, strictly enforced phytosanitary controls, uneven levels of domestic farm suppo…
China's Exports and Imports of Agricultural Products under the WTO
An American economic geographer specializing in the agricultural sector of China's economy presents a study of that country's trade in agricultural products. The paper is focused on patterns of change in the regional distribution of agricultural and aquacultural exports and imports before and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Drawing on research during the course of a field trip in July 2008 and utilizing data compi…
Chinese among Others: Emigration in Modern Times Philip A. Kuhn
(2009). Chinese among Others: Emigration in Modern Times Philip A. Kuhn. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 608-612
Westward ho: Chasing rural China across time and space
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGregory VeeckGregory Veeck is Professor in the Department of Geography, 3219 Wood Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5424
China's Quiet Agricultural Revolution: Policy and Programs of the New Millennium
Two specialists on China's agricultural sector review the recent course of agrarian reform in the country since the year 2000. More specifically, they summarize the more significant policy changes occurring during the period 2000-2009 (including the rollout of major new programs and agricultural tax relief) while simultaneously tracking impressive improvements in a variety of standard indicators of agricultural performance and rural per capita in…
Chinese Engagement with Africa: The Case of Madagascar
Using field work in Madagascar as the foundation for a case study, two U.S.-based geographers examine the complex relations developing between many African nations and the Chinese government as well as ethnic Chinese citizens and guest-workers who live and work in Africa. The study investigates changes in the perceptions of Malagasy citizens of the Chinese presence and long-term effects of Chinese investments in Madagascar's economy. Although the…
China’s food security: Past success and future challenges
The rapid growth of China’s economy – averaging 9.1% per year for the 35 years since 1978 – has many implications for China’s domestic food and agriculture sector as well for the global food system. The more the nation’s economy expands, the more food is needed to feed an ever-growing middle class with significantly different consumption patterns than when the economic reforms began. Food security for China is not merely an agricultural, economic…
China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor
Yongjun Zhao. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. i–ix and 161 pp., maps, tables, index. $98.96 cloth (ISBN 9781409428213); $109.95 electronic PDF (ISBN 9781409428220); $109.95 electronic ePUB (ISBN 978
The Economic Contributions of Agricultural Tourism in Michigan
Family farms have long generated income from agricultural tourism including U-picks, wagon rides, corn mazes and petting zoos, but contemporary agricultural tourism reflects much greater sophistication in terms of product variety, services, activities, and marketing. In Michigan, farm operators have moved beyond classic products and activities and the traditional consumer base. New sources of revenue derive from classes on beer, cider, mead and w…
Geography (26 works) · China (21 works) · Economics (20 works) · Agriculture (15 works) · Agricultural economics (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)