Rural Households' Livelihood Capital, Risk Perception, and Willingness to Purchase Earthquake Disaster Insurance: Evidence from Southwestern China

doi:10.3390/ijerph15071319

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	Rural Households' Livelihood Capital, Risk Perception, and Willingness to Purchase Earthquake Disaster Insurance: Evidence from Southwestern China
	Xu, Dingde1 ; Liu, Enlai2 ; Wang, Xuxi3 ; Tang, Hong 1; Liu, Shaoquan4
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
	2018-07-01
卷号	15 期号:7 页码:19
关键词	livelihood capital risk perception disaster insurance willingness Wenchuan earthquake China
ISSN号	1660-4601
DOI	10.3390/ijerph15071319
英文摘要	Earthquake disaster insurance can effectively reduce the impact of earthquake disasters on rural households. Exploring rural households' willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance in earthquake disaster areas provides an understanding of the motivations underlying the implementation of an insurance policy. However, few studies have examined the perspectives of rural households, in order to explore the correlations between the rural households' livelihood capital, their disaster risk perception, and their willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance. A cross-sectional survey data including 241 rural households from the most severe disaster counties (cities) during the 5 center dot 12 Wenchuan earthquake was examined with regard to rural households' livelihood and disaster risk perception, and ordinal logistic regression models were constructed to explore rural households' willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance, as well as the driving mechanism behind this willingness. The results showed that 34.44% of rural households were very willing to purchase earthquake disaster insurance, and 7.05% of rural households were very reluctant to purchase earthquake insurance. Rural households' livelihood capital and risk perceptions were the most important factors affecting their willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance. Rural households with higher scores on natural capital, physical capital, possibility, and worry were more likely to purchase earthquake disaster insurance. Specifically, keeping all other variables constant, every one unit increase in nature capital and physical capital corresponded to an increase in the odds of willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance by a factor of 0.14 and 0.06, respectively; every one unit increase in possibility and worry corresponded to an increase in the odds of willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance by a factor of 0.03 and 0.04, respectively. This study contributes to the current literature by increasing the understanding of the relationships between Chinese rural households' livelihood capital and risk perceptions, and their willingness to purchase earthquake disaster insurance.
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000445543500025
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/23898]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_山区发展研究中心
通讯作者	Xu, Dingde; Liu, Shaoquan
作者单位	1.Sichuan Agr Univ, Coll Management, Sichuan Ctr Rural Dev Res, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, Peoples R China 2.Geog Natl Condit Monitoring Engn Res Ctr Sichuan, 2 Xinjun St, Chengdu 610599, Sichuan, Peoples R China 3.China West Normal Univ, Coll Land & Resources, Nanchong 637000, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Dingde,Liu, Enlai,Wang, Xuxi,et al. Rural Households' Livelihood Capital, Risk Perception, and Willingness to Purchase Earthquake Disaster Insurance: Evidence from Southwestern China[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2018,15(7):19.
APA	Xu, Dingde,Liu, Enlai,Wang, Xuxi,Tang, Hong,&Liu, Shaoquan.(2018).Rural Households' Livelihood Capital, Risk Perception, and Willingness to Purchase Earthquake Disaster Insurance: Evidence from Southwestern China.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,15(7),19.
MLA	Xu, Dingde,et al."Rural Households' Livelihood Capital, Risk Perception, and Willingness to Purchase Earthquake Disaster Insurance: Evidence from Southwestern China".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 15.7(2018):19.