Evaluation of the benefit of land consolidation and rehabilitation

In China's land use practice, land readjustment has contributed a lot to realizing the rational disposition of land resources and improving the land use efficiency and the ecological environment. Regarding land readjustment, one of the essential contents should be the result of land readjustment, upon which land arrangement plan can be based. However, so far as the theoretical and empirical researches in China's mainland, few discuss the connotation and evaluation methodology of land readjustment result. Based on the review of land readjustment result abroad, it is discussed that the connotation of land arrangement benefit can be defined in three respects as economic benefit, social benefit and environment benefit. Furthermore, evaluation methodologies with special attention to land readjustment are introduced, which is expected to shed new light on relevant researches.