Showing papers by "Dingde Xu published in 2017"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated rural household land arrangements under different household divisions of labor in Sichuan Province, a typical mountainous area of Western China, and found significant correlations between farming household structure and migration income, as well as land arrangement behaviors.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the impact of external risk impacts on peasant households' poverty vulnerability with relation to migrant work income, and found that savings and migrant workers' income can significantly reduce the effect of external risks on peasant household poverty vulnerability.
Abstract: The poverty vulnerability of peasant households has been a common focus for scholars. However, research on vulnerability, its determinants, and policy implications is still rather limited in developing countries. Based on statistics on peasant households threatened by geological disasters at the Three Gorges Reservoir area, this paper studied external risk impacts on peasant households’ poverty vulnerability with relation to migrant work income. The results show that: 1) Agricultural income loss does not significantly impact peasant household poverty vulnerability. However, geological disaster impacts and housing construction or purchase exert significantly positive influences, acting as the dominant influences on peasant household poverty vulnerability. 2) Savings and migrant work income can significantly reduce the impact of external risks on peasant household poverty vulnerability. To be specific, future consumption for peasants with savings is 47.1% (model 3) and 32.5% (model 5) lower than that for peasants without savings, and with every 1% increase in the proportion of migrant work income, future consumption variance for peasant households falls 25.2% (model 3) and 24.9% (model 5) on average. In addition, social networks have no significant remission effects to the poverty vulnerabilities caused by external risks.
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TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship of sense of place to the relocation willingness of farming households while controlling for other variables, including income, income, whether a household has experienced economic loss from landslides, and social support.
Abstract: Scholars from environmental psychology, geography, disaster science, and sociology have recently focused attention on evacuation and relocation behaviors and influencing factors in hazard-threatened areas. However, existing studies are mainly focused on developed countries and the influence of individual characteristics, household characteristics, and the perception of risk of urban households on evacuation and relocation behaviors. Few studies examine developing countries and the influence of farmers’ sense of place in geological hazard-threatened areas. Using statistics of farming households in an area threatened by landslides, this is a pilot study to explore the relationship of sense of place to the relocation willingness of farming households while controlling for other variables. The results show that: (1) Households with higher scores of place identity and place dependence are less willing to relocate, whereas place attachment has no significant relationship to household relocation willingness; (2) Risk perception dimensions, including probability, threat, and controllability have a significant relationship to household relocation willingness, while worry and fear of the unknown have no significant relationship; (3) Household characteristics, including income, whether a household has experienced economic loss from landslides, and social support are significantly correlated with household relocation willingness, while gender, age, experience, distance to hazard sites, size of household, children, older people, and housing material are not. The results for information and education are not robust. This study contributes to the current literature by improving the understanding of the relationship of sense of place to the relocation willingness of farming households in villages threatened by geological disasters in rural China.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the interactions between various dimensions of risk perception, such as Possibility and Unknown, had direct, negative impacts on the dimensions of sense of place such as Society bond and Place dependence, acting through Society bond.
Abstract: Residents of rural mountain settlements are constantly threatened by disasters such as landslides. Their risk perception directly or indirectly affects their behavioral choices. Introducing the concept of sense of place, this paper details its interactions with the risk perception of mountain hazards. Rural residents (n = 348) in landslide-threatened areas of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area were questioned about their sense of place and risk perception. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to explore the interactions between various dimensions, and hypothetical tests were conducted. We found that dimensions of risk perception, such as Possibility and Unknown, had direct, negative impacts on the dimensions of sense of place, such as Society bond and Place dependence. Possibility had an indirect, yet more significant effect on Place attachment and Place identity, acting through Society bond. Rural residents often overestimate disaster risks due to fatalism, and a fear of the unknown stemming from low scientific literacy, which reduces their Place dependence. A complex interaction between sense of place and risk perception was observed. The findings provide a scientific basis for the government to formulate integrated policies regarding settlement relocation, disaster prevention and mitigation, and sustainable development.
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