Impacts of snow disaster on rural livelihoods in southern Tibet-Qinghai Plateau

Li, Xiaoping; Yang, Xueting; Fang, Yiping; Xu, Yun; Zhu, Fu-biao

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.05.007

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“…What is worse, the frequent disasters have led to great loss to the production of agriculture and animal husbandry there. This is consistent with previous studies in which natural disasters have been established to have a great impact on the livelihoods of farmers and herdsmen [46][47][48][49].…”

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Evaluation of Sustainable Livelihoods in the Context of Disaster Vulnerability: A Case Study of Shenzha County in Tibet, China

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The issue of achieving sustainable livelihoods (SL) is a persistent problem that has gained significant interest for all countries. Even though contexts of vulnerability have been highlighted to be critical to SL, the difference of SL under vulnerability contexts, particularly disaster, has been ignored. As one disaster-prone area, there is an urgent need to conduct studies on SL in Shenzha, within the context of the construction of a national park. This paper proposes to address this research gap by evaluating SL under various disaster contexts in Shenzha, China. According to the frequency of natural disasters, towns in Shenzha can be divided into three groups: Snowstorm and windstorm-dominated towns (SWT), mixed towns (MT) and drought-dominated towns (DT). The results showed that (1) a great disparity of SL can be observed among the three vulnerability groups. The scores of these SL were sorted into descending order as: DT > SWT > MT. (2) In detail, herdsmen in DT have a high value of SL because they have high livelihood assets, livelihood strategies and disaster management capabilities. (3) Herdsmen in SWT have high livelihood assets, particularly human and financial assets, and livelihood strategies. (4) The low livelihood assets and livelihood strategies have restricted the SL of herdsmen in MT. An analysis of SL under various disaster contexts helped to depict the characteristics of SL. Accordingly, targeted policies were developed for the development of SL under various disaster contexts.

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“…Complex disaster contexts in Tibet have been observed to cause great loss to SL [49]. The vulnerability of SL to disaster has been well-examined in previous studies, and great loss has been seen while coping with disasters [49,54]. Once disaster occurs, relief supplies from surrounding regions of the disaster area are costly.…”

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“…Taking the three major components into consideration, the general LSI value was not high. This reflects that the NFLD and related control policies have caused a certain impact on the livelihoods of the surrounding rural residents, which is in line with existing studies which concluded that the general household livelihood is influenced by natural disasters or land degradation vulnerability [40][41][42][43][44][45].…”

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Evaluation of Livelihood Sustainability in the Context of Natural Forest Land Degradation Vulnerability: A Case Study of Five Counties in China

Lin

2021

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Land degradation, especially natural forest land degradation (NFLD), is a severe environmental concern in China. This natural disaster itself and its derivative control policies have caused some impacts on surrounding farmers’ livelihood level and strategies, but the literature on the sustainable livelihood of different households in NFLD vulnerability is limited, and there is an urgent need to bridge the gap and conduct studies on the sustainable livelihood of Changting, Libo, Lixian, Menghai and Wuxi, the typical NFLD-prone areas in China. A new livelihood sustainability index (LSI) including livelihood asset, livelihood strategy and sustainability engagement is constructed to assess the basic situation. The results showed that: (1) The overall LSI of five NFLD areas was not high, and the social, financial and natural assets, in particular, were relatively low. A disparity was found among the five areas, and the rank sequence of the LSI value was sorted in a descending order: Changting > Menghai > Libo > Lixian > Wuxi. (2) In detail, farmers in Changting had the relative highest LSI because of the inherent high value of livelihood assets, which constrain the scores of the livelihood strategy and sustainability engagement. (3) Households in Libo, Menghai and Lixian had middle level LSI scores. The relative low livelihood assets in Libo and Menghai drove parts of local farmers to carry out off-farm/forestry employment, leading to high scores of livelihood strategy, while farmers in Lixian had lower livelihood diversification scores and higher sustainability engagement due to their working content for the local forestry bureau. (4) The low scores of the livelihood asset and sustainability engagement restricted farmers in Wuxi. A discussion of LSI in the NFLD vulnerability was conducted to determine the characteristics and analyze the reasons. Accordingly, targeted policy recommendations were proposed to realize a sustainable livelihood in NFLD areas.

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“…Riddell et al provided a methodology to capture these factors within exploratory scenarios designed to test the effectiveness of policy responses to reduce disaster losses (Riddell et al 2019). Other scholars have also researched the risk of disasters in agriculture production based on dynamic methods (Lu et al 2019;Qiu et al 2018;Yang et al 2019;Zhang et al 2019). Another type of research is to use crop models to simulate the growth process of crops and to set the parameters of crop models to assess the risk of agricultural meteorological disasters.…”

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Information diffusion theory-based approach for the risk assessment of meteorological disasters in the Yangtze River Basin

Tongzhao

et al. 2020

Nat Hazards

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The Yangtze River Basin is one of the three plain areas in China, and it spans eleven regions and serves as an important economic belt. The Yangtze River Basin is a region with frequent meteorological disasters and is affected by south-east and south-west monsoons. With a dense population, the economy in the middle and lower reaches of the basin has rapidly developed, and the agricultural economy has made significant contributions to China. Therefore, it is of far-reaching significance to study the influence of meteorological disasters in the Yangtze River Basin. Using information diffusion theory, this research analyses the impacts of five frequent natural disasters (floods, drought, convective storms, low temperatures, and typhoons) on selected areas from 2001 to 2006

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Impacts of snow disaster on rural livelihoods in southern Tibet-Qinghai Plateau

Cited by 29 publications

References 39 publications

Evaluation of Sustainable Livelihoods in the Context of Disaster Vulnerability: A Case Study of Shenzha County in Tibet, China

Evaluation of Sustainable Livelihoods in the Context of Disaster Vulnerability: A Case Study of Shenzha County in Tibet, China

Evaluation of Livelihood Sustainability in the Context of Natural Forest Land Degradation Vulnerability: A Case Study of Five Counties in China

Information diffusion theory-based approach for the risk assessment of meteorological disasters in the Yangtze River Basin

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