Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

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	Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China
	Xu, Dingde1,2,3 ; Zhang, Jifei1,2 ; Rasul, Golam 4; Liu, Shaoquan1,2 ; Xie, Fangting1,2,3 ; Cao, Mengtian1,2,3 ; Liu, Enlai1,2,3
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2015-05-01
卷号	7 期号:5 页码:4850-4869
关键词	farmers' sustainable livelihood agricultural collection ordinal logistic regression model rural households China
ISSN号	2071-1050
通讯作者	Liu, Shaoquan
英文摘要	This study explores the extent to which farmers in the Three Gorges Reservoir area remain highly dependent on agriculture despite rapid urbanization and industrialization. The study focuses on the factors that determine a household's choice of livelihood strategy, with a particular focus on the production of and dependence on agricultural products. Using a sustainable livelihoods approach and survey data from farmers in the Three Gorges Reservoir area in China, the study provides a descriptive statistical analysis and ordinal logistic regression model that shows that close to 56% of households exhibit a low dependence on agriculture. The following variables had a significant influence on livelihood strategy: the maximum years of education of any household member; the age of the household head; the number of laborers in a household; household location; and formal and informal social networks. Regardless of whether the household had children, house value and fixed assets had no significant influence on livelihood strategy. According to the analysis results, we put forward the suggestions that government departments increase investment in infrastructure and make loan policies more favorable for farmers so as to encourage rural able-person to use their social networks to actively establish businesses at migrant destinations.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
类目[WOS]	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
研究领域[WOS]	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
关键词[WOS]	MIGRATION ; PROVINCE ; SICHUAN
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
原文出处	http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/5/4850
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000356936200004
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/10675]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_山区发展研究中心
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China 2.Minist Water Conservancy & Power, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Int Ctr Integrated Mt Dev, Kathmandu 44700, Nepal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Dingde,Zhang, Jifei,Rasul, Golam,et al. Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2015,7(5):4850-4869.
APA	Xu, Dingde.,Zhang, Jifei.,Rasul, Golam.,Liu, Shaoquan.,Xie, Fangting.,...&Liu, Enlai.(2015).Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China.SUSTAINABILITY,7(5),4850-4869.
MLA	Xu, Dingde,et al."Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China".SUSTAINABILITY 7.5(2015):4850-4869.