Adaptation of herders to droughts and privatization of rangeland-use   rights in the arid Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.04.053

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	Adaptation of herders to droughts and privatization of rangeland-use rights in the arid Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia
	Zhang, Chengcheng ; Li, Wenjun ; Fan, Mingming
刊名	journal of environmental management
	2013
关键词	Adaptation Adaptive capacity Arid area Drought Institutional change Privatization Rangeland SEMIARID GRAZING SYSTEMS ADAPTIVE CAPACITY CLIMATE-CHANGE PROPERTY-RIGHTS CHINA DEGRADATION IMPACTS
DOI	10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.04.053
英文摘要	Residents of arid areas have developed their own adaptive strategies and adaptive capability to cope with an unstable environment that experiences frequent droughts. These strategies and this capability are based on traditional practices that developed from a profound understanding of their environment, but both the strategies and the capability have been affected by institutional change. Specifically, rangeland-use rights in the Alxa Left Banner were privatized in 1996, and the implementation of this policy decreased the ability of local herders to use traditional solutions. In this paper, we describe the change in their adaptive capability after implementation of this policy. Traditionally, local knowledge of the heterogeneity of resources and of key resources based on a deep understanding of the local environment, combined with tight social relationships, let herders use three traditional grazing strategies (seasonal migration, long-distance migration, and raising a diversity of livestock species) to mitigate the impacts of drought. But privatization has nearly eliminated their ability to rely on these traditional strategies and has weakened the forms of social and other capital that supported these strategies and provided a high adaptive capability. We argue that this institutional change has adversely affected traditional practices and undermined the adaptive capability of herders. Consequently, managers of the Alxa Left Banner must find ways to restore the various forms of capital to restore the herders' adaptive capability, particularly given the growing need to account for future climate change. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000321088300021&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Environmental Sciences; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; 1; ARTICLE; 182-190; 126
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/158797]
专题	环境科学与工程学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Chengcheng,Li, Wenjun,Fan, Mingming. Adaptation of herders to droughts and privatization of rangeland-use rights in the arid Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia[J]. journal of environmental management,2013.
APA	Zhang, Chengcheng,Li, Wenjun,&Fan, Mingming.(2013).Adaptation of herders to droughts and privatization of rangeland-use rights in the arid Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia.journal of environmental management.
MLA	Zhang, Chengcheng,et al."Adaptation of herders to droughts and privatization of rangeland-use rights in the arid Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia".journal of environmental management (2013).