Community livelihood and its dependence on nature resources under pressure of conservation

作     者：Kui Cai Ziling Gong 

作者机构：Center for Rural Development StudiesYunnan University Center for Western Yunnan Development StudiesMinistry of Education and Yunnan University School of ResourcesEnvironment and Geo-ScienceYunnan University 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Population,Resources and Environment》 (中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第12卷第1期

页      面：80-87页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the Nature Conservancy[grant number NA/KUNMING/YU030112] Yunnan Provincial Fund of Social Science[grant number YB2013024] 

主　　题：community livelihood protected area resource dependence analysis Laojunshan National Park 

摘      要：Conflict between conservation and community livelihood is a significant issue in *** on Sustainable Livelihood Framework(SLA),this study systematically analyzed livelihoods assets of a community in a Yunnan snub-nosed monkey conservation area and found that the livelihood pentagon of the community was shaped by multiple but frail and unstable income sources,abundant natural resources with restricted use right,underutilized labors,inadequate financial resources,inconvenient physical capital and weak social *** income heavily depended on forest,and grazing and nontimber forest products(NTFP)collection are common and major income sources for ***,differentiation of income dependence on forest among villagers groups showed that there is no close correlation between the level of income and the level of income dependence on *** daily life also heavily depended on the forest due to heating and pig-feed cooking;hence,fuelwood cannot be easily replaced by any other energy resource for a long period.