Improving Post-Relocation Support for People Resettled by Infrastructure Development

Downing, Theodore E.; Shi, Guangming; Zaman, Muhammad; Garcia-Downing, Carmen

doi:10.1080/14615517.2021.1980277

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“…Focus on strengthening the prediction of urban, rural and enterprise migration and reconstruction caused by land change in coastal areas due to sea level rise and research on population migration due to flood, waterlogging and drought disaster risks caused by meteorological and hydrological changes. (2) Make use of China's beneficial exploration in the fields of engineering resettlement, ecological resettlement, poverty alleviation resettlement, etc., to formulate climate migration policies, regulations and strategic planning; apply them to the preparation, planning, and implementation management of climate migration policies in a planned way; and explore sustainable livelihood restoration based on the migration mechanism of creating a harmonious society (De Sherbinin et al, 2011;Xu and Shi, 2020;Downing et al, 2021). (3) Establish a database cloud platform related to climate change and population migration.…”

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Evolution trend and hot topic measurement of climate migration research under the influence of climate change

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IntroductionGlobal climate change, which is characterized by climate warming, has become one of the most prominent risk problems in society at present. Climate migration brings many accompanying problems to the environment, economy, politics, society, and culture. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the internal relationship between climate change and population migration.MethodsThe data were extracted from the Web of Science core collection database (WOS) and China Knowledge Network database (CNKI). A total of 785 documents and 157 documents in the field of climate migration from 2008 to 2021 were selected as analysis samples. Word frequency analysis, clustering analysis, sudden word detection analysis, and other methods were extensively used to build the evolution trend map of climate migration using CiteSpace visual bibliometric software.ResultsIt is concluded that climate migration research has experienced three stages of development: initial exploration stage (2008-2011), development enrichment stage (2012-2017), and system deepening stage (2018).The hot topics of climate migration include: (1) different types of climate migration research; (2) Quantitative model research on climate migration; (3) Climate justice research. Different types of climate migration include 7 main types: (1) migration caused by sea level rise; (2) Resettlement caused by flood disaster; (3) Migration due to worsening drought; (4) Migration caused by extreme climate events; (5) Voluntary migration due to climate change discomfort; (6) Project resettlement caused by climate change response engineering measures; (7) Migrants whose livelihoods are broken due to climate change.DiscussionThe study points out that climate migration research is an interdisciplinary research field, which needs joint research by scholars from different academic backgrounds. In the future climate migration research, 1) strengthen the prediction ability of climate change population migration model; 2) Make use of China’s beneficial exploration in the migration fields such as engineering resettlement, ecological resettlement and poverty alleviation resettlement to formulate climate migration policies, regulations and strategic planning; 3) Establish a database cloud platform related to climate change and population migration; 4) Strengthen the exchange and cooperation between Chinese researchers in the field of climate migration and international scientific research institutions.

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“…This analytical framework is commonly applied to the resettlement of migrants due to large-scale development projects, such as the construction of dams, fisheries, agriculture and livestock projects (Scudder, 1962;Colson, 1971;Scudder and Colson, 1980;Colson and Scudder, 1988;Smith, 1994;Shi et al, 1996), as well as resettlement due to ecological degradation (Tony, 1993;Choy, 2004;Tilt et al, 2009;Shi et al, 2012Shi et al, , 2021Downing et al, 2021;Zaman et al, 2022) and can be applied in climate migration (de Sherbinin, 2011;Hossain, 2017;Liang et al, 2023) and government responsible poverty alleviation induced migration (Shi et al, 2019;Gou et al, 2022). In China livelihood studies focus on resettlement for poverty alleviation has only emerged in recent years.…”

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A coupled and coordinated analysis in livelihoods of poverty alleviation migrants from a just transition perspective

Tao

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2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionFrom 2016 to 2020, China resettled 9.6 million poor people for the purpose of poverty alleviation. While this policy achieved the goal of eliminating absolute poverty, it also caused massive displacement and problems related to achieving a “just transition”. This study considers the “coupled coordination model” of resettlement, and examines livelihood capital and livelihood stability, from the perspective of “just transition”.MethodsThis study is based on survey data gathered in Lanping County, Yunnan Province from 235 resettled people that belong to “ethnic minority groups directly-entering-socialism”, making use of the livelihood capital assessment index system of farm households which is based on China's poverty alleviation resettlement policy and background-established a “coupled coordination degree model” which coordinates and combines livelihood capital and livelihood stability analyzes how accumulation of livelihood capital affects livelihood stability.ResultsResults indicate that (1) resettlement and supportive measures increased the coupling and coordination of migrants' household livelihood capital and livelihood stability.; (2) This type of coupled coordination led to a change from “dysfunctional decline type” to a “transitional development type”, thus reflecting “just transition”; (3) Although livelihood capital had an important positive impact on the coupling and coordination of migrants livelihood coupling and coordination, different livelihood strategies influenced livelihood coupling and coordination in different ways.DiscussionThis requires that government decision makers focus on facilitating a “just transition” as migrants become urbanized citizens. Disposing of natural resources such as farmland for migrants, promoting the implementation of land circulation policies, considering the contribution of different types of livelihood capital to different families, improving the precision of employment training, and promoting sustainable livelihood development.

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“…Since China announced its official involvement in Pakistan in April 2015, a frequent theme in the literature has been the economic benefits of connecting Gwadar and Xinjiang ( Zhang et al, 2017 , 2018 ; Downing et al, 2021 ; Mamirkulova et al, 2022 ). According to previous records, the relationship between China and Pakistan strengthened in all areas from the 1970s ( Zhang et al, 2017 , 2018 ; Downing et al, 2021 ; Mamirkulova et al, 2022 ). It was partly due to the two countries’ leaders having similar philosophies.…”

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Community Wellbeing Under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Role of Social, Economic, Cultural, and Educational Factors in Improving Residents’ Quality of Life

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This present article explores the effects of cultural value, economic prosperity, and community mental wellbeing through multi-sectoral infrastructure growth projects under the Belt and Road Initiative. The implications of the social exchange theory are applied to observe the support of the local community for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). This study explores the CPEC initiative, it’s direct social, cultural, economic development, and risk of environmental factors that affect residents’ lives and the local community’s wellbeing. CPEC is a multibillion-dollar project to uplift economic growth and free trade between Pakistan, China, and other regional stakeholders. Although CPEC is still in its initial phases with partial startups, policymakers and government officials claim this mega project as a “game-changer” in the region, mainly for Pakistan and China. This gigantic project offers the significant potential to generate business slews and employment opportunities with international outreach. Due to the term’s newness, numerous studies have recently explored the macro and microeconomic benefits of the CPEC initiatives; still, these projects are theoretical. The existing literature insufficiently explored how helpful CPEC would be to a specific group and how residents perceive its advantages. This study fills in the literature gaps and explores the likely advantageous potential of the CPEC for the regional states. The study applied a convenient sampling technique for the data collection process. It used a mixed-method approach to gain scientific results, with a standardized questionnaire survey of 459 people (300 men and 159 women) from five major cities of Pakistan. The study results designate that residents believe that CPEC infrastructure projects will significantly improve residents’ life quality through more job openings and community poverty reduction. Still, they raised their concerns regarding environmental protection issues in the region. The findings specified that residents had an optimistic approach to better educational productivity by adopting environment-oriented policies. Policymakers should establish new CPEC study centers in different areas, and investors should be encouraged to participate in the industrial sector. Officials can overwhelm community worries about environmental degradation. Government officials in both countries can utilize the findings to raise public awareness about CPEC’s social, economic, cultural, mental wellbeing, and ecological implications.

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Improving Post-Relocation Support for People Resettled by Infrastructure Development

Cited by 26 publications

References 23 publications

Evolution trend and hot topic measurement of climate migration research under the influence of climate change

Evolution trend and hot topic measurement of climate migration research under the influence of climate change

A coupled and coordinated analysis in livelihoods of poverty alleviation migrants from a just transition perspective

Community Wellbeing Under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Role of Social, Economic, Cultural, and Educational Factors in Improving Residents’ Quality of Life

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