Impact of Linking Livelihood Resilience of Smallholder Households and the Risk Management Strategies: The Case of China from Socioeconomic Perspectives

Xinming Liu, Zhe Song, Jie Xu, Weilin Feng () and Wei Liu ()
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Xinming Liu: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Zhe Song: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Jie Xu: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Finance and Economics, Xi’an 710100, China
Weilin Feng: School of Economics, Management and Law, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002, China
Wei Liu: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: The government of China has implemented the Southern Shaanxi Disaster Resettlement program since 2011, which aims to address the problems of reduced livelihood resilience, increased livelihood risks, and single-risk management strategies caused by the frequent occurrence of natural disasters. This study considers the specific situation of disaster resettlement in Ankang Prefecture, southern Shaanxi Province, and draws on Quandt’s measurement idea to quantify livelihood resilience at the household scale in terms of five types of capital assets: natural, physical, human, financial, and social. A coarsened exact matching model was used to control confounding factors in the observational data to reduce sample selection bias, and then multinomial logit regression models were used to examine how livelihood resilience affects risk management strategies; moreover, the effects of different indicators of livelihood resilience, relocation characteristics, and follow-up support measures on risk management strategies were analyzed. Results show that livelihood resilience is higher among new-stage relocation, voluntary relocation, and centralized resettlement households, and working outside of the home accounts for the largest proportion of risk management strategies chosen by the sample households. In addition, livelihood resilience and its dimensions and indicators, relocation characteristics, and follow-up support measures have different impacts on risk management strategies. These results have considerable significance in guiding research on risk management strategies at the household scale and can serve as a reference for disaster resettlement in other developing nations and regions.

Keywords: disaster resettlement; livelihood resilience; relocated households; risk management strategies; 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: 2024
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