What are the keys to influence the life satisfaction of eco-migrants in the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains?A test based on the livelihood risk interaction

Eco-migrants'ability to adapt to livelihood risks and their satisfaction with lives directly affect the ecological and economic benefits of ecological migration engineering.To formulate an effective livelihood risk prevention system and welfare guarantee mechanism,we took the ecomigrants in Wuwei City as an example,developed an integrated analytical framework for life satisfaction and employed linear regression models to identify the interactions between livelihood risk and life satisfaction.Our findings indicate that 94.66%of eco-migrants in Wuwei City are threatened by livelihood risks after relocation.High living expenses,poor quality of redistributed production goods,and re-poverty constitute the main risks.The risk multiplicity index is 2.96.Besides cultural types,there are no significant differences in regions and livelihoods.A total of 55.73%of eco-migrants are satisfied with their lives,with the Liangzhou district scoring the highest.Except for satisfaction with development potential and public services,no significant intergroup differences were found among regions and livelihood patterns.Eco-migrant's life satisfaction is significantly affected by livelihood risks.Eco-migrants'satisfaction with living income,social integration,farmer-friendly policies and overall life is negatively affected by the risk of repoverty and inadequate social security.An ecomigrant's satisfaction with development potential and community construction is not influenced by one type of risk alone,but the interaction between risks has a strong influence.The interaction of welfare risks with economic risks and policy risks will balance and weaken the adverse effects of a single risk on those elements in the economic and policy spheres.This study offers novel ideas for rural revitalization,hollow governance,and well-being assurance.

The perception of desertification,its social impact and the adaptive strategies of ecological migrants in the desertification area,China

Based on social influence theory,the Risk-Coping-Social Appraisal model,and data on land desertification,its social influence,and the adaptive measures of 506 households surveyed in Ordos and Bayan Nur,Inner Mongolia,China,we used the Heckman two-stage model and a multinomial logistic model and found the following.First,the perception of land desertification was a prerequisite for eco-migrants to employ adaptive strategies but did not necessarily indicate the adoption of adaptive countermeasures.Second,the social influences eco-migrants experienced at their resettlement site had a significant effect on their ability to employ countermeasures to land desertification.Third,asset variables that reflected migrant's coping ability positively affected perceptions of land desertification and subsequent adaptive countermeasures.To mitigate the negative effects of climate change and land desertification,the local government should encourage migrants to accumulate assets and help migrants to integrate into their new community.This can be achieved by propagandizing information on climate change through a range of channels,diversifying publicity content,and guiding migrants to learn about new technologies and methods for reducing land desertification to minimize related economic losses.