Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of   herder communities in northern Tibet

doi:10.5751/ES-08170-210105

CORC > 北京大学 > 城市与环境学院

	Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of herder communities in northern Tibet
	Wang, Jun ; Wang, Yang ; Li, Shuangcheng ; Qin, Dahe
刊名	ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
	2016
关键词	climate adaptation herder communities institutional change sustainable livelihoods Tibetan Plateau ADAPTIVE CAPACITY VULNERABILITY RESILIENCE PLATEAU POLICY DEGRADATION FRAMEWORK
DOI	10.5751/ES-08170-210105
英文摘要	The Tibetan grassland social-ecological systems are widely held to be highly vulnerable to climate change. We aim to investigate livelihood adaptation strategies of herder households and the types of local institutions that shaped those adaptation strategies. We examined the barriers and opportunities for strengthening adaptive capacity of local herder communities. We designed and implemented a household survey in the herder communities of northern Tibet. The survey results showed that migratory grazing has become less feasible. Storage, diversification, and market exchange have become the dominant adaptation strategies. The adaptation strategies of local herders have been reshaped by local institutional change. Local governmental and market institutions played the dominant roles in reshaping climate adaptation strategies. Although the present livelihood adaption strategies related to sedentary grazing have improved productivity and profitability of the herding livelihood, they have led to continuous deterioration of pastures. The local grazing system has become more and more dependent on artificial feeding and inputs from outside the grazing system. Purchasing forage has become one of the dominant adaptation strategies of local herder households. Multilevel regression modeling of this adaptation behavior showed that explanatory variables related to climate variability, household capital, and local institutional arrangements had statistically significant relationships with the adoption of this adaptation strategy. The results implies that building household capital and promoting the coordination among local governmental, market, and communal institutions are critical for strengthening adaptive capacity of the Tibetan herder communities.; State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences; Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, China [SKLCS-OP-2014-10]; Laboratory for Climate Studies Open Funds for Young Scholars, China; National Science Foundation of China [41401215]; SCI(E); SSCI; ARTICLE; 1; 21
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/438874]
专题	城市与环境学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Jun,Wang, Yang,Li, Shuangcheng,et al. Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of herder communities in northern Tibet[J]. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY,2016.
APA	Wang, Jun,Wang, Yang,Li, Shuangcheng,&Qin, Dahe.(2016).Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of herder communities in northern Tibet.ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY.
MLA	Wang, Jun,et al."Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of herder communities in northern Tibet".ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY (2016).