Resilience building of rural livelihoods in PES programmes: A case study in China's Loess Hills.

ABSTRACT: In spite of positive expectations for environmental protection, payments for ecosystem services (PES) can bring about unintended disturbances to rural livelihoods. Based on resilience thinking, this article investigates livelihood resilience building at farm level through the interaction between farm adaptation and disturbances induced by China's Grain for Green project (GGP). Cluster analysis was conducted to investigate the complexity and diversity of farm adaptation; the crafting of composite indexes was designed to value resilience through disturbance, sensitivity, and adaptability; regression analyses linked the resilience indexes and farm adaptation with access to resources. The results show three adaptation typologies (i.e. reclamation of retired lands, contractive farming, and expa

SUBMITTER: Li Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7028900 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature