RURAL RESILIENCE IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS OF SOUTHWEST CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF CHONGQING
LI Yu-heng1,2, HUANG Hui-qian1,2, SONG Chuan-yao1,2
1. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract Resilience is the fundamental attribute of the rural system and arises as rural system interacts with shocks and disturbances. In the face of uncertainty and unexpected risks, rural resilience plays an important role in resisting shocks, minimizing the impact, recovering to pre-shock regime while maintaining the stability of rural system. The paper takes Chongqing city as the study area and investigates rural resilience of 120 selected villages of Chongqing. The paper uses the entropy method and collects data from field survey to evaluate rural resilience in terms of economic resilience, social resilience and engineering resilience. The research results show that: 1）Rural resilience of Chongqing is 0.46 which is below the medium level. 2）Villages of higher resilience are mainly located in the north part of Chongqing, however villages of lower resilience are in the southeast parts which are mountainous terrain, ethnic minority settlements and less developed transportation system. 3）Economic resilience is the main restrictive factor to rural resilience of the selected villages in Chongqing because of the insufficient input of production capital, low human capital and low quality of land resources. 4）Comparing to rural state resilience, the response resilience is lower, which is attributed to the low response resilience of rural economic and engineering subsystems. Policy implications are proposed in the end of the paper. What's more, it is also advised to analyze the resilient threshold of rural system in responding to external shocks.
LI Yu-heng,HUANG Hui-qian,SONG Chuan-yao. RURAL RESILIENCE IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS OF SOUTHWEST CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF CHONGQING[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2022, 37(5): 97-105.
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