An Analysis of Rural Household Livelihood Change and the Regional Effect in a Western Impoverished Mountainous Area of China

doi:10.3390/su10061738

	An Analysis of Rural Household Livelihood Change and the Regional Effect in a Western Impoverished Mountainous Area of China
	Wang, Chuansheng
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2018-06-01
卷号	10 期号:6 页码:17
关键词	assets ecosystems Grain for Green program household livelihood change poverty area sustainable rural livelihood
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su10061738
通讯作者	Wang, Chuansheng(wangcs@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Taking Longnan, in the western Qinling Mountains region of Gansu province, China, as our study area, and using the Sixth National Population Census alongside household survey data, we analyze changes in household livelihoods, and consequent regional effects, following the instigation of the Grain for Green program in 1999. Our results show rural livelihood changes with respect to natural assets (e.g., reduction of arable land, planting structure changes), human assets (e.g., labor quality improvement, fluidity of population), financial assets (e.g., income channels widening, income increasing), physical assets (e.g., optimized production tools), and social assets (e.g., information network development, increased outreach opportunities). We suggest that increased household livelihoods play an important role in improving land space utilization efficiency, resource conservation and use, and the ecological environment. However, owing to the natural environment, there are also some problems, such as hollows in rural production and living spaces, as well as local environmental degradation. To address these issues, regions such as the western, mountainous, impoverished area of our study should establish a policy of using ecosystems, as well as agriculture, for development in order to improve household livelihoods, build an efficient spatial structure, and providing support for the creation of a resource-saving societal system.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41171109] ; Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[KZZDEW0603]
WOS关键词	POVERTY REDUCTION ; TOURISM
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000436570100050
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/54322]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Wang, Chuansheng
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Chuansheng. An Analysis of Rural Household Livelihood Change and the Regional Effect in a Western Impoverished Mountainous Area of China[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2018,10(6):17.
APA	Wang, Chuansheng.(2018).An Analysis of Rural Household Livelihood Change and the Regional Effect in a Western Impoverished Mountainous Area of China.SUSTAINABILITY,10(6),17.
MLA	Wang, Chuansheng."An Analysis of Rural Household Livelihood Change and the Regional Effect in a Western Impoverished Mountainous Area of China".SUSTAINABILITY 10.6(2018):17.