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The Research On The Land-lost Farmers’ Sustainable Livelihood In Tourism Developed Areas

Posted on:2014-02-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2256330422457561Subject:Administrative Management
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At present, the tourism industry is booming in China, many places take the tourismindustry as the leading industry of the economic development, more and more farmerslost their land with the large-scale exploitation, particularly in the tourism developedareas. These land-lost farmers become a special weak group in society and get highattention from scholars. Nowadays, scholars have transferred study focus from singleemployment, protection or compensation to the systematic and sustainable livelihoodsof them.The thesis takes Fenghuang as the object of case study, aiming to search theoriesand evidence to land-lost farmers’ problem in tourism developed areas by analyzing andstudying land-lost farmers’ particularity and relative literature review. The thesis doesfield research being guided by urbanization development and sustainable livelihoodtheories. The author went Qian gongping and Tuojiang town of Fenghuang to interviewmany land-lost farmers to get first-hand materials. According to survey results, land-lostfarmers in Fenghuang county are mainly suffering from the following problem: thedecreasing of the total land, the descending of land-lost farmers’ income, theseriousness of poverty, the singleness of arrangement, the contradiction of employment,the deficiency of social security for land-lost farmers and low ability of security. It notonly hinders the survival and development of land-lost farmers, but also affects socialstability, harmony, economical development in the minority areas and waste workforceresources.Factors that lead to unsustainable livelihoods of these land-lost farmers are complex and various, as follow: an irrational compensation system, an incomprehensive socialsecurity system, an imperfect employment supporting policy, land-lost farmers canhardly become citizens and undeveloped modern industries in minority areas, etc. Bylearning from the domestic and foreign advanced experience and doing analysis andstudy on the particularities of the minority areas, this thesis presents suggestions on problem of unsustainable livelihoods of land-lost farmers from three aspects of thecentral and provincial government, local government and the lost-hand farmersthemselves. On the base of optimizing social compensation and protection system,perfecting all-round and extrude social security, increasing the land-lost farmers’ incomeby developing special tourism industry, changing their old opinions, stepping upemployment and entrepreneurship, to solve the problem of unsustainable livelihoods ofland-lost farmers.
Keywords/Search Tags:Urbanization, Tourism developed areas, Land-lost farmers, Sustainablelivelihood
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