Examining the impacts of disaster resettlement from a livelihood perspective: a case study of Qinling Mountains, China

Guo, Xuesong; Kapucu, Naim

doi:10.1111/disa.12242

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“…Sustainable livelihoods occur when livelihoods systems become resilient to external factors, such as elephant crop damage, without undermining long-term productivity [86]. Failure by subsistence farmers to resolve crop damage results in their resentment and loss of peace of mind [18].…”

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Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

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African elephants (Loxodonta africana) induce considerable crop damage risks, shocks and stresses on subsistence farmers at the wildlife-agriculture interface. In this study, we explored the social dimensions of human-elephant interactions in the wildlife-agrarian landscape. The study aimed at unraveling the associated hazardous conditions and nature of the subsistence farmers’ social vulnerability and practices with respect to elephant crop damage, subsistence farmers’ livelihoods, and elephant conservation. Applying qualitative thematic content analysis, the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) and additive generalized linear models (GLMs), this study revealed that the status of relational social capital influences human-elephant conflict (HEC) management and subsistence farmers’ responses, regardless of the farmers’ social learning and environmental values about the social-ecological system. The strengthening of multiple local stakeholder participation, institutional governance and access to livelihoods assets are needed for human food security and elephant conservation. Adoption of more effective nuanced crop protection counter-measures against elephants at farm level is urgently needed.

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Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

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“…Ningxia's experience, where 'ecological' resettlements in response to water insecurity have been carried out for decades, is being repackaged as a pilot for climate-induced resettlements. The burgeoning natural hazards and disaster literature in China has found resettlement to result in generalised impoverishment (Chen et al, 2017) and disproportionately burdened the most vulnerable (Guo and Kapucu, 2017). Articles about Ningxia claim that resettlement is an important adaptive measure for drought (Yang et al, 2015), but it is only very recently that these projects took into account the long-term viability of resettlement sites (Zheng et al, 2016).…”

Section: Resettlement and Climate Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…If there are vulnerability assessments, these are done at the county level (Zheng et al, 2016), which is inadequate for understanding vulnerability or informing planning in China because of significant inequality between and within villages. The burgeoning natural hazards and disaster literature in China has found resettlement to result in generalised impoverishment (Chen et al, 2017) and disproportionately burdened the most vulnerable (Guo and Kapucu, 2017). Others working at the interface of poverty alleviation and disaster prevention have argued that government-led resettlement projects are adaptive because they reduce exposure to hazards, enable mobility, provide financial incentives, and improve living standards and psychological wellbeing (Lei et al, 2017).…”

Section: Resettlement and Climate Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Planned resettlement to avoid climatic hazards: What prospects for just outcomes in China?

Wilmsen

Rogers

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Planned resettlement is being widely considered as a response to the impacts of climate change.As many millions of people are expected to be displaced in the coming decades, scholars and policymakers are searching for precedence to inform their research and planning, particularly from experiences of Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (DIDR). Nowhere in the world is DIDR and other closely related forms of planned resettlement more prevalent than in China: an estimated 78 million people have been displaced by development projects over the last six decades. While planned resettlement has consistently been shown to cause impoverishment, the Chinese state views it as the answer to a multitude of social ills including poverty, environmental damage, low levels of domestic consumption, and most recently, climate change, providing impetus to the normalisation of resettlement as adaptation. This paper examines the prospects for just outcomes in resettlement projects by examining distributive justice at multiple scales in existing resettlement practice in China. It finds that due to the interplay between resettlement and questions of procedural justice, prospects for just outcomes are quite limited, and that in order to achieve fair adaptation, alternatives to planned resettlement should be emphasised.

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“…SLF has been widely used to analyze livelihoods of farmers (e.g., [30,31]). A few studies also applied SLF to disaster-preventive resettlements [7,8]. The vulnerability stream of research describes risky situations for resettlers and their incapacity to take risk-reducing actions [32].…”

Section: Livelihood Assessment Model Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…China is one of the countries most prone to natural disasters, with about 7900 victims dying each year [6]. Some massive projects for disaster-preventive resettlement have been initiated in China in recent years [7,8]. As displacement and resettlement may destroy people's original livelihoods and expose people to risk of greater poverty, livelihood recovery has been considered a top priority in resettlements [9].…”

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Assessing Livelihood Reconstruction in Resettlement Program for Disaster Prevention at Baihe County of China: Extension of the Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction (IRR) Model

2018

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The paper develops a tool for livelihood recovery assessment in disaster-preventive resettlement. A new conceptual framework is built based on the impoverishment risks and reconstruction (IRR) model. This framework leads to a quantitative model that was designed and tested using the disaster resettlement preventive engineering (DRPE) project in Baihe county of China. The new model evaluates the qualities of livelihood recovery in terms of three components: Life reconstruction, development reconstruction, and safety reconstruction, which consider features specific to the Chinese society, and introduce a new insecurity factor. The model showed good reliability, validity, and sensitivity for the evaluation of livelihood reconstruction in disaster-preventive resettlement. Its application will help to target interventions to improve public services in resettlement areas by identifying cases with inadequately sustainable livelihoods.

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Examining the impacts of disaster resettlement from a livelihood perspective: a case study of Qinling Mountains, China

Cited by 28 publications

References 73 publications

Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

Planned resettlement to avoid climatic hazards: What prospects for just outcomes in China?

Assessing Livelihood Reconstruction in Resettlement Program for Disaster Prevention at Baihe County of China: Extension of the Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction (IRR) Model

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