Frozen soil change and adaptation of animal husbandry: a case of the source regions of Yangtze and Yellow Rivers

This paper discusses the spatial and temporal change of different frozen soil types from 1980s to 2000s, and the impacts of frozen soil change on rangeland productivity and sustainable livelihood in the source regions of Yangtze and Yellow Rivers employed numerical model and GIS technology. Authors...

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Published in:Environmental Science & Policy
Main Authors: Fang, Yiping, Qin, Dahe, Ding, Yongjian
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Frozen Soil
Cryospheric Change
Adaptation
Animal Husbandry
The Source Regions Of The Yangtze And Yellow Rivers
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
GRASSLAND PRODUCTIVITY
TIBETAN PLATEAU
CLIMATE-CHANGE
PERMAFROST
CHINA
MOUNTAINS
ALASKA
DEGRADATION
MANAGEMENT
ECOSYSTEM
Environmental Sciences
permafrost
Alaska
Online Access:http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/5413
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2011.03.012
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Summary:This paper discusses the spatial and temporal change of different frozen soil types from 1980s to 2000s, and the impacts of frozen soil change on rangeland productivity and sustainable livelihood in the source regions of Yangtze and Yellow Rivers employed numerical model and GIS technology. Authors use the analytical framework of adaptation of animal husbandry according to national, regional, community and household scales, and release three key instruments of cryospheric change adaptation, including adaptive capacity of the policies, adaptive capacity of the people, and adaptive capacity of the grassland ecosystem. Analysis result shows that there is clearly a need, to develop institutional processes that support policy analysis to draw on existing information, that facilitate multidisciplinary research on topics of policy relevance, and that link the accumulation of credible cryosphere scientific evidence with policy making. Finally, Authors suggest that further support to mainstream climatic and cryospheric change concerns in adaptation policies and strategies of animal husbandry must include a focus on: (1) Formulating ecological compensation policy and mechanism for grassland ecosystem maintenance; (2) Strengthening vocational training, long-term essential-qualities-oriented education to improve indigenous people's professional skills and abilities; (3) Strengthening development of livestock replacement industries to broaden employment channels of indigenous people; (4) Strengthening the consciousness of ecosystem maintenance, improvement the social civilization level for indigenous people; (5) Continuous implementation the Ecological Protection and Restoration Program in the Three-River Source Region in national scale. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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