Vulnerability, well-being, and livelihood adaptation under changing environmental conditions: a case from mountainous region of Pakistan

Shahzad, Laila; Tahir, Arifa; Sharif, Faiza; Khan, Waqas–ud–Din; Farooq, Muhammad; Abbas, Azhar; Saqib, Zulfiqar Ahmad

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-05880-x

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“…It is characterized by a period in which people restrict their social relations and impose limits on their movement [7,8], changing habits. These changes may be influenced by home conditions [9,10], which can also affect people's psychological well-being (PWB) [11,12]. The current technological development makes a big difference between the closure of COVID-19 and the previous isolation times.…”

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Psychological Well-Being and Home Conditions during COVID-19 Confinement. Internet Addiction and Nostalgia as Mediators

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Santamaría

Gutiérrez-García

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic posed a challenge for all confined populations, dealing with their home resources and suffering changes in their psychological well-being. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between home conditions (i.e., having children, square meters of the house and square meters of the terrace or similar) and psychological well-being, and to test whether this relationship is mediated by Internet addiction and nostalgia. The sample was composed of 1509 people, aged between 18 to 78 years (67.6% women). Structural Equations Models and 2 × 2 ANOVAs were analyzed. It was found that better home conditions mean greater psychological well-being, and that this relationship is partially mediated, in a negative sense, by Internet addiction and nostalgia, especially after day 45 of confinement and with greater intensity in women. These results provide evidence about how psychological well-being can be preserved during a confinement situation, which may be useful for planning healthy strategies in similar circumstances in the future.

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confidence: 99%

Psychological Well-Being and Home Conditions during COVID-19 Confinement. Internet Addiction and Nostalgia as Mediators

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Gutiérrez-García

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“…All the remaining were considered as moderately resilient. According to the study, urban areas are more resilient then the rural regions with clear demarcation of better services and other parameters with might be lacking on the other extreme (Twongyirwe et al, 2019;Shahzad et al, 2019b).…”

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Analyzing Resilience and Food Insecurity of Drought Prone Communities of Tharparkar Desert, Pakistan

Shahzad

Yasin

liaqat

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The resilience of the rural household to food insecurity has been assessed in two districts of Tharparkar desert, Sindh-Pakistan. The main aim of the study was to assess the prospects of the local community to cope with droughts. Drought has been the most threatening risk for the study area due to its severe effects on the food, income, health, adaptability of the people, and survival of livestock. The resilience of locals to the serious dry conditions was estimated by using a Resilience Index. The household resilience index from ten latent variables: income and food access, agricultural assets, non-agricultural asset, access to basic services, social safety nets, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, climate change, agricultural practices and technology and enabling institutional environment were calculated. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was conducted for checking the appropriateness of data as a whole and along with ten components of resilience index. Data samples were measured by the KMO Test of Sampling Adequacy (0.512) which indicates that the components used for PCA were relevant as the standard value was greater than equal to 0.5. The results state that overall Tharparkar region was vulnerable due to having more livelihood from natural resource dependency. The availability of the water resources by any community aided their survival even in the worst conditions. Nagarparkar being close to the openly accessible water was comparatively more resilient then Islamkot which had no water in close proximity. Evitable attention is needed by the policy makers to tackle food insecurity of local community.

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“…Persistent volatile climatic shocks to the crop and livestock have forced policy makers to reiterate the whole thinking process for the sustainability of the climate affected people such as farmers and livestock owning households (Wise et al, 2014;Pandey & Kumar, 2018;Raman, 2020). Likewise, numerous studies are also carried out in Pakistan to highlight the relationship between climate change and vulnerability (Salik et al, 2015;Ullah et al, 2018;Qaisrani et al, 2018;Fahad & Wang, 2019;Shahzad et al, 2019;Ahmed et al, 2020).…”

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Vulnerability to Climate Change and Socio-Economic Factors: A Comparison of Selected Districts of Punjab

Raza¹,

Shahid

Tayyab³

et al. 2021

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This study analyzes ten districts of the province Punjab of Pakistan to investigate and compare the vulnerability of selected districts. Total Three sub-groups (socio-economic variables, adaptive capacity, bio-physical variables) are generated by using the data from Pakistan Social & Living Standard Measurement Survey (PSLM) and Pakistan Meteorological Department of the years 2014-15, to calculate total vulnerability. Using primary variables at the district level, this study determines each district’s rural and urban areas' total vulnerability score. The results show that few districts, e.g., Rawalpindi has 0.74 total vulnerability score out of 1, are highly vulnerable compared to other districts despite having a better socio-economic situation. On the other hand, few districts, like Multan, have a low vulnerability to climate change and socio-economic factors. Keywords: CO2, socio-economic, bio-physical, environment, Vulnerability. JEL Classification Codes: Q3, O13, P28.

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Vulnerability, well-being, and livelihood adaptation under changing environmental conditions: a case from mountainous region of Pakistan

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Psychological Well-Being and Home Conditions during COVID-19 Confinement. Internet Addiction and Nostalgia as Mediators

Psychological Well-Being and Home Conditions during COVID-19 Confinement. Internet Addiction and Nostalgia as Mediators

Analyzing Resilience and Food Insecurity of Drought Prone Communities of Tharparkar Desert, Pakistan

Vulnerability to Climate Change and Socio-Economic Factors: A Comparison of Selected Districts of Punjab

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