Influences of Sense of Place on Farming Households' Relocation Willingness in Areas Threatened by Geological Disasters: Evidence from China

Dingde Xu; Li Peng; Shaoquan Liu; Chunjiang Su; Xuxi Wang; Tiantian Chen

doi:10.1007/s13753-017-0112-2

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Dingde Xu, Li Peng, Shaoquan Liu, Chunjiang Su, Xuxi Wang, Tiantian Chen. Influences of Sense of Place on Farming Households' Relocation Willingness in Areas Threatened by Geological Disasters: Evidence from China[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017, 8(1): 16-32. doi: 10.1007/s13753-017-0112-2

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Dingde Xu, Li Peng, Shaoquan Liu, Chunjiang Su, Xuxi Wang, Tiantian Chen. Influences of Sense of Place on Farming Households' Relocation Willingness in Areas Threatened by Geological Disasters: Evidence from China[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017, 8(1): 16-32. doi: 10.1007/s13753-017-0112-2

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Dingde Xu, Li Peng, Shaoquan Liu, Chunjiang Su, Xuxi Wang, Tiantian Chen. Influences of Sense of Place on Farming Households' Relocation Willingness in Areas Threatened by Geological Disasters: Evidence from China[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017, 8(1): 16-32. doi: 10.1007/s13753-017-0112-2

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Influences of Sense of Place on Farming Households' Relocation Willingness in Areas Threatened by Geological Disasters: Evidence from China

doi: 10.1007/s13753-017-0112-2

1 Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China;
2 University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Funds:

the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y5R2080080)

the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41401198)

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the STS Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KFJ-SW-STS-175)

the Youth Talent Team Program of the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SDSQB-2015-01), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016332). The authors also extend great gratitude to the anonymous reviewers and editors for their helpful review and critical comments, which have led to significant improvement to the early version of the manuscript.

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Abstract

Scholars from environmental psychology, geography, disaster science, and sociology have recently focused attention on evacuation and relocation behaviors and influencing factors in hazard-threatened areas. However, existing studies are mainly focused on developed countries and the influence of individual characteristics, household characteristics, and the perception of risk of urban households on evacuation and relocation behaviors. Few studies examine developing countries and the influence of farmers' sense of place in geological hazardthreatened areas. Using statistics of farming households in an area threatened by landslides, this is a pilot study to explore the relationship of sense of place to the relocation willingness of farming households while controlling for other variables. The results show that:(1) Households with higher scores of place identity and place dependence are less willing to relocate, whereas place attachment has no significant relationship to household relocation willingness; (2) Risk perception dimensions, including probability, threat, and controllability have a significant relationship to household relocation willingness, while worry and fear of the unknown have no significant relationship; (3) Household characteristics, including income, whether a household has experienced economic loss from landslides, and social support are significantly correlated with household relocation willingness, while gender, age, experience, distance to hazard sites, size of household, children, older people, and housing material are not. The results for information and education are not robust. This study contributes to the current literature by improving the understanding of the relationship of sense of place to the relocation willingness of farming households in villages threatened by geological disasters in rural China.
- China,
- Farming households,
- Relocation willingness,
- Risk perception,
- Sense of place,
- Three Gorges Reservoir area

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