[1]GUO Xiuli,LI Wangping,SUN Guojun,et al.Analysis of Livelihood Capital and Its Coupling Coordination Degree of Farmers in Ecologically Vulnerable Alpine Areas[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2022,29(06):330-335,343.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
29
Number of periods:
2022 06
Page number:
330-335,343
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Public date:
2022-10-20
- Title:
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Analysis of Livelihood Capital and Its Coupling Coordination Degree of Farmers in Ecologically Vulnerable Alpine Areas
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GUO Xiuli1, LI Wangping2, SUN Guojun1,ZHANG Liping1
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(1.Gansu University of Political Science and Law, Lanzhou 730070, China; 2.Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China)
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- Keywords:
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farmers; livelihood capital; coupling and coordination; Xiahe County
- CLC:
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F323.8
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- Abstract:
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In order to reduce the livelihood vulnerability of farmers and promote the restoration of regional ecological environment, we selected the Xiahe County, which located in northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, as the study area. Based on the survey data of peasant households, we used the entropy method and coupling coordination degree model to measure and compare the livelihood capital and coupling coordination degree of peasant households, and explored the factors affecting the livelihood capital and its allocation. The results show that:(1)The overall livelihood capital of farmers is low, in which the human capital is the highest with minimum differences, but the loss of human capital is serious. The financial capital is the lowest with the maximum difference.(2)Compared with the livelihood capital of different types of farmers, the human capital, financial capital and social capital of developed farmers are better than those of basic and capital-deficient farmers.(3)The degree of coupling coordination of household livelihood capital is generally low, and the farmers mainly belong to the basic coordination level. Comparatively, the livelihood capital coupling coordination degree of developed farmers is highest, the livelihood capital coupling coordination degree of basic farmers is higher, and the livelihood capital coupling coordination degree of capital-deficit farmers is the lowest and all of them are zero. Regional human geographical environment, ecological protection and poverty control policy are the important factors that affect farmers' livelihood capital and its allocation. Therefore, tapping the human capital potential of farmers, improving their financial capital, and changing the utilisation mode of natural capital are effective measures to reduce livelihood vulnerability and maintain regional ecological security of the alpine ecologically fragile area.