Integrated assessment on the vulnerability of animal husbandry to snow disasters under climate change in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau | |
Wei, Yanqiang1,2![]() ![]() | |
刊名 | GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
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2017-10-01 | |
卷号 | 157页码:139-152 |
关键词 | Vulnerability Snow Disaster Animal Husbandry Climate Change Qinghai-tibetan Plateau |
ISSN号 | 0921-8181 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.08.017 |
通讯作者 | Yanqiang Wei |
英文摘要 | Animal husbandry is a dominant and traditional source of livelihood and income in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is the third largest snow covered area in China and is one of the main snow disaster regions in the world. It is thus imperative to urgently address the issue of vulnerability of the animal husbandry sector to snow disasters for disaster mitigation and adaptation under growing risk of these disasters as a result of future climate change. However, there is very few literature reported on the vulnerability of animal husbandry in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. This assessment aims at identifying vulnerability of animal husbandry at spatial scale and to identify the reasons for vulnerability for adaptive planning and disaster mitigation. First, historical snow disaster characteristics have been analyzed and used for the spatial weight for vulnerability assessment. Second, indicator-based vulnerability assessment model and indicator system have been established. We combined risk of snow hazard, sensitivity of livestock to disaster, physical exposure to disaster, and community capacity to adapt to snow disaster in an integrated vulnerability index. Lastly, vulnerability of animal husbandry to snow disaster on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has been evaluated. Results indicate that high vulnerabilities are mainly concentrated in the eastern and central plateau and that vulnerability decreases gradually from the east to the west. Due to global warming, the vulnerability trend has eased to some extent during the last few decades. High livestock density exposure to blizzard-prone regions and shortages of livestock barn and forage are the main reasons of high vulnerability. The conclusion emphasizes the important role of the local government and community to help local pastoralists for reducing vulnerability to snow disaster and frozen hazard. The approaches presented in this paper can be used for snow disaster mitigation, resilience enhancement and effectively reducing vulnerability to natural hazards in other regions. |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000413612100011 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/19062] ![]() |
专题 | 成都山地灾害与环境研究所_山区发展研究中心 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Ecoenvironm & Resources, Key Lab Remote Sensing Gansu Prov, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Ecoenvironm & Resources, State Key Lab Cryospher Sci, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wei, Yanqiang,Wang, Shijin,Fang, Yiping,et al. Integrated assessment on the vulnerability of animal husbandry to snow disasters under climate change in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau[J]. GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE,2017,157:139-152. |
APA | Wei, Yanqiang,Wang, Shijin,Fang, Yiping,&Nawaz, Zain.(2017).Integrated assessment on the vulnerability of animal husbandry to snow disasters under climate change in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE,157,139-152. |
MLA | Wei, Yanqiang,et al."Integrated assessment on the vulnerability of animal husbandry to snow disasters under climate change in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau".GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE 157(2017):139-152. |
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