Poverty Alleviation Resettlement and Household Natural Resources Dependence: A Case Study from Ankang Prefecture, China

Wei Liu () and Xinyu Wu
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Wei Liu: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Xinyu Wu: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China

Agriculture, 2023, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: In order to assess the degree to which China’s poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) has been able to address the development conundrum of natural resources reliance and human welfare, it was necessary to investigate the effects of PAR on rural households with regard to their dependence on natural resources. This article evaluated households’ natural resources dependence in rural China by constructing a natural resources dependence index and empirically analyzing the effect of PAR on households by using household survey data from Ankang Prefecture, located in southern Shaanxi Province. The findings demonstrated that PAR could effectively decrease the dependence of households on local natural resources, thus safeguarding the natural environment. Moreover, there were noteworthy distinctions regarding households’ natural resources dependence. This research endeavored to complete the fusion of natural resource dependence and PAR at the household level, and then contemplated the policy implications of PAR on rural households’ dependence on resources, furnishing fresh information for future evaluations of nature conservation and development policies.

Keywords: poverty alleviation resettlement; natural resources dependence; relocated households; resource utilization; rural China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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