Print Email Facebook Twitter Livelihood Capital Effects on Famers’ Strategy Choices in Flood-Prone Areas Title Livelihood Capital Effects on Famers’ Strategy Choices in Flood-Prone Areas: A Study in Rural China Author Ao, Yibin (Chengdu University of Technology) Tan, Ling (Chengdu University of Technology) Feng, Qiqi (Chengdu University of Technology) Tan, Liyao (Chengdu University of Technology) Li, Hongfu (Chengdu University of Technology) Wang, Yan (Sichuan College of Architectural Technology) Wang, T. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management) Chen, Yunfeng (Purdue University) Date 2022 Abstract The global climate change has resulted in huge flood damages, which seriously hinders the sustainable development of rural economy and society and causes famers’ livelihood problems. In flood-prone areas, it is imperative to actively study short and long-term strategies and solve farmers’ livelihood problems accordingly. Following the sustainable development analysis framework proposed by the Department for International Development (DFID), this study collects empirical data of 360 rural households in six sample villages in the Jialing River Basin of Sichuan Province, China through a village-to-household field questionnaire and applies the Multinominal Logit Model (MNL) to explore the influence of farmer households’ capital on livelihood strategy choice. Research results show that: (1) In human capital category, the education level of the household head has a significant positive impact on the livelihood strategies of farmers’ families; (2) In physical capital category, farmer households with larger space have more funds to choose among flood adaptation strategies; (3) In natural capital category, house location and the sale of family property for cash have the greatest negative impact on farmers’ livelihood strategies; (4) Rural households with more credit opportunities in financial capital are more willing to obtain emergency relief funds; (5) Farmers’ families helped by the village for a long time will probably not choose to move to avoid floods, but are more likely to choose buying flood insurance. This study provides an empirical reference for effective short and long term prevention and mitigation strategies design and application in rural in flood-prone areas Subject farmers’ householdflood disastercapitallivelihood strategy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f8161b4b-7c54-495e-918b-4ec16ade4869 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127535 ISSN 1660-4601 Source International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (12) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 Yibin Ao, Ling Tan, Qiqi Feng, Liyao Tan, Hongfu Li, Yan Wang, T. Wang, Yunfeng Chen Files PDF ijerph_19_07535.pdf 1.47 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f8161b4b-7c54-495e-918b-4ec16ade4869/datastream/OBJ/view