A long way to go:impacts of urbanization on migrants’livelihoods and rural ecology in less industrialized regions  

作　　者：ZHANG Zhi-qi LI Ming-jing LI Wen-jun WEI Yi-ran SHI Yi-lu 

机构地区：[1]Department of Environmental Management,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China

出　　处：《Journal of Mountain Science》2023年第12期3450-3463,共14页山地科学学报（英文）

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant number 41971256 and 42271290)。

摘　　要：Urbanization,often coupled with industrialization,is generally considered as a boost for improving livelihood as well as alleviating ecological pressures of the rural areas.However,this experience needs to be tested in less industrialized areas,particularly where the urbanization is driven by non-economic factors such as urban public services and relevant government policies rather than employment opportunities.Taking two villages on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as examples,through the field investigation by using semi-structured questionnaires and in-depth interviews,and statistical data analysis,we explored the impacts of urbanization on migrants’livelihoods and the ecological conditions of their original village rangeland.We found that the disposable income and savings of emigrant households were less than the stay households,which might be correlated to the limited employment due to the lagged industrialization in the local township,and the mismatch between their traditional labor skills and the demands of urban services.Their home-village rangeland overuse was not alleviated since the increasing grazing pressure caused by the stay households,though the emigrant households intended to decrease the number of livestock on their home pasture.We concluded that the urbanization misaligned with local industrialization may fail to improve migrant livelihoods and local ecological conditions in less industrialized areas.Our research supplements the previous urbanization theory by highlighting the non-industrialization driven urbanization,and is particularly pertinent for the transitional countries worldwide.

关 键 词：URBANIZATION INDUSTRIALIZATION Livelihoods Ecological conditions Pastoral areas Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 

分 类 号：F327[经济管理—产业经济] F299.27F427