AUTHOR=Chen Shaojun , Wu Jing , Zhou Kexin , Li Ru 

TITLE=Livelihood resilience and livelihood construction path of China's rural reservoir resettled households in the energy transition

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

VOLUME=Volume 6 - 2022

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1046761

DOI=10.3389/fsufs.2022.1046761

ISSN=2571-581X

ABSTRACT=With the coordinated advancement of China's strategic deployment of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" and the overall layout of ecological civilization construction, hydropower, as a clean and renewable energy, has ushered in new development opportunities. Reservoirs are the key supporting facilities and storage carriers in hydropower development projects. At the present stage, the just transition strategy has become the guiding ideology and inevitable requirement of China's energy transition. Besides, the resettlement and development of households affected by reservoir construction have also been given new connotations and missions. Taking Xiangjiaba Hydropower Station (Yunnan reservoir area) as an example, this paper constructs an evaluation index system of livelihood resilience of reservoir affected households from three dimensions of buffer capacity, self-organization capacity and learning capacity; it identifies the main contributing factors of livelihood resilience by using contribution model, and constructs a livelihood path to improve livelihood resilience. The results show that: 1) The level of livelihood resilience of resettled households is not high as a whole, in which the self-organization capacity is the strongest, the buffer capacity is the second, and the learning capacity is the weakest; 2) There are differences in livelihood resilience of resettled households who choose different livelihood modes. Among them, buffer capacity, capacity for learning and livelihood resilience are characterized by wage operation type > part-time equilibrium type > agricultural operation type > subsidy dependence type, while self-organization capacity is characterized by agricultural operation type > part-time equilibrium type > wage operation type > subsidy dependence type; 3) For resettled households who choose different livelihood modes, the main contributing factors to livelihood resilience are similar. The number of labor force, participation in social organizations, skill training opportunities and other 11 main indicators promote the formation and development of livelihood resilience from different dimensions; 4) Under the just transition strategy, the livelihood of resettled households should follow the construction path of "identifying transformation ability, clarifying resource advantages, strengthening livelihood support, and promoting livelihood reorganization", so as to promote the comprehensive improvement of livelihood resilience and ultimately achieve sustainable livelihood and high-level welfare.