PEASANT HOUSEHOLD SYSTEM REGIME SHIFT AND ITS INFLUENCE MECHANISM BASED ON DROUGHT VULNERABILITY:A CASE STUDY OF ZHONGLIANCHUAN TOWNSHIP IN YUZHONG COUNTY
SHI Cui-ping, YANG Xin-jun, WANG Zi-qiao, CHEN Jia, LIU Qian
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China
Abstract Based on the perspective of social-ecological systems multiple regime theory, peasant household regime and state is recognized. And the index system of vulnerability to drought of peasant household is established from two aspects of sensitivity and adaptability, as the evaluation criterion of different regimes and states of peasant household. Researches show that: ① Peasant household system regime in the study area has shifted from a traditional agricultural regime into a new agricultural regime and a non-agricultural regime. ② Through regime shift, the vulnerability of peasant household to drought has been significantly reduced, shift to non-agricultural regime is prior to new agricultural regime to reduce the drought vulnerability, and in each regime, drought vulnerability is negatively correlated with the shift degree. ③ The proportion of labor force and relatives network are important family factors that can influence peasant household regime shift, peasant household is promoted to shift to non-agricultural regime by education spending. ④ Peasant household regime shift is driven by natural environment and the development of social and economic (objective reason),the convert direction is determined by the family expect of peasant household (subjective motivation) and the convert degree is determined by the ability of peasant household to change the way of living (determinants).
2015, Vol. 30 
