Environmental emigration stress of slope farmland in the Three Gorges area |
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Authors: | Wang Liming PhD Guan Qingfeng Yang Yanfeng |
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Institution: | Inst. of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China |
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Abstract: | The project of ‘grain for green’, to restore woodland and grass by retreating from slope farmland, as a fundamental measure
of eco-environmental rehabilitation, is being conducted in the reservoir area of the Three Gorges gradually. However, the
de-farming of slope farmland will reduce the amount of farmland in de-farmed areas, especially in the areas with concentrated
slope farmland, which would cause the problems of environmental emigration. The people who cannot regain enough farmland by
relocating farmlands within village after de-farming and have to emigrate to other places are called environmental emigrants
or ecological emigrants. In the research, a de-farming stress index model and an environmental emigration model are developed
based on GRID data, and the potential amount of environmental emigration caused by de-farming of slope farmland in the reservoir
area is simulated aided with GIS. The simulation indicates that the potential emigration amount caused by de-farming is quite
large. When the de-farming stress index reaches 40%, the amount is as large as 890,000 people, which is equivalent to the
emigrants caused by the submergence of the Three Gorges reservoir. So it should be considered as a big problem during the
eco-environmental rehabilitation in this area. Some suggestions are raised to tackle the problem. Firstly, the emigration
plan should be included in the de-farming plan. Secondly, some provinces, especially those located in the lower reaches of
the Yangtze River, should accommodate part of the environmental emigrants. |
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Keywords: | environmental emigration slope farmland de-farming Three Gorges |
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