Table 3 Definitions of farmers’ sustainable livelihood resilience types.

From: Measuring farmers’ sustainable livelihood resilience in the context of poverty alleviation: a case study from Fugong County, China

Period

Explanation

Stable promotion period

With strong and stable anti-risk ability, the elements of resilience can promote each other and achieve sustainable livelihood

Benign promotion period

With strong anti-risk ability, the elements of resilience promote each other to form a virtuous circle, and gradually transition to a period of stable improvement

Stagnation period

It has the strong anti-risk ability. Although the elements of resilience have no obvious defects, they are separated from each other, and the overall development has fallen into a bottleneck. Although the status quo can be maintained, it is not conducive to achieving long-term sustainable livelihoods

Mild recession period

The ability to resist risks is poor, and there is a defect in one of the elements that make up resilience, which hinders the improvement of resilience, and the livelihood capacity begins to decline

Severe recession period

The ability to resist risks is poor, two of the elements that make up resilience are flawed, development is severely hindered, and livelihoods are rapidly declining

Chaotic period

Completely exposed to risk, inadequate capacity in all aspects, and sink deeper and deeper into a vicious circle