Analysis On Immigrants' Livelihood Changes Among Different Resettlements Of The Nuozhadu Reservoir

The livelihood changes of reservoir immigrants has been concerned widely, in this thesis, NuoZhadu reservoir was selected as the mega hydropower station sited on Lancang River in Yunnan province. Field work were implemented in Lancang County in order to investigate immigrants'livelihood changes before and after the relocation due to the Lancang County maintain the largest of immigrant size in NuoZhadu reservoir area. During Field work, there were 242 immigrants household in 11 resettlement sites of Lancang County were interviewed, using the method of questionnaires survey. Base on the information collected at household level and characteristics of resettlement implementation plan, three resettlement modes are defined:the concentrated resettlement in new township mode, the concentrated resettlement in same township mode and the scattered resettlement in same township mode. By adapting DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, a quantitative evaluation index system (including livelihood capacity, livelihood capital and livelihood activity) was constructed to evaluate immigrants'livelihood change. The major results are:(1) The immigrants' livelihood capacity did not changed significantly due to relocation, when household was basic resettle unit, however, there were some differences among the three types of resettlement modes due to the different support ratios of migrant families.(2) The immigrants' livelihood capital changed significantly and showed different characteristics among three resettlement modes. The livelihood capital increased in the concentrated resettlement in new township mode. The livelihood capital was showing different degrees of increase or decrease in the concentrated resettlement in same township mode. The livelihood capital decreased in the scattered resettlement in same township mode.(3) The immigrants'livelihood activity changed significantly and showed different characteristics among three resettlement modes. The non-agricultural livelihood activities increased in different degrees in all three resettlement modes, and the agricultural livelihood activities appeal increasing, maintaining and decreasing in different resettlement modes respectively.