Impact of Environmental and Health Risks on Rural Households’ Sustainable Livelihoods: Evidence from China

Wei Wang, Chongmei Zhang, Yan Guo and Dingde Xu
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Wei Wang: Department of Agriculture and Forestry Economics and Management, College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 130062, China
Chongmei Zhang: Department of Agriculture and Forestry Economics and Management, College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 130062, China
Yan Guo: Department of Data Science, College of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 130062, China
Dingde Xu: Sichuan Center for Rural Development Research, College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 130062, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 20, 1-15

Abstract: China has entered a “post-poverty alleviation” era, where the achievement of sustainable livelihoods by farmers has become a focus. This study used the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database, which was constructed based on an analysis of the DFID sustainable livelihood framework, and built a sustainable livelihood index system for farmers using the entropy weight method to measure the weights of sustainable livelihood indexes and calculate a sustainable livelihood index. This study used the Tobit model to discuss the impacts of different types of risk on the achievement of a sustainable livelihood by farmers. The results showed that environmental risk, chronic disease risk, and major disease risk all had significant negative impacts on the ability of farmers to achieve a sustainable livelihood. The impacts of major disease and chronic disease risks on the achievement of a sustainable livelihood by farmers living in plain areas were stronger than those associated with environmental risk. In China, the environmental risks were complex and diverse and were the most important factors that affect the achievement of a sustainable livelihood by rural households in mountainous areas. Chronic disease risk was also an important adverse factor that affected the achievement of a sustainable livelihood by rural households in mountainous areas.

Keywords: risk impact; peasant households; sustainable livelihood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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