Impoverishment Risks Caused by the Ecological Resettlement Project

Chengwu Jin

Chapter 6 in Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap:Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu, 2013, pp 99-124 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractHaving conducted field research on the ecological resettlement of Tibetan villages in Qinghai, this chapter found that ecological re-settlers face significant risks of impoverishment in host communities, as they can no longer work and live in ways that they are used to, and once they join these host communities their earning capacity is in fact worsened. The risks of impoverishing this group of people can in fact undermine efforts to protect the land. Moreover, such approaches may pose new challenges to poverty alleviation work in Tibetan areas, and thus merit further attention. On the basis of our findings, this author recommends that in addition to financial compensation to populations displaced by the ecological resettlement project, investing in the human resources of these populations (i.e. both adults and children) is extremely important for ecological re-settlers to improve their earning capacity in the host communities and to integrate into their new urban environment.

Keywords: Tibet; Poverty Alleviation; Economic Development; Farmers; Herdsmen; Market Participation; Value Chain Analysis; Yunnan; Ecological Resettlement; Qinghai; Antenatal Care; Obligatory Education; Minimum Living Standard Guarantee; Culture; Radio; TV; Disaster Relief; Disaster Prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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