DOI: 10.1002/wcc.302
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84911468781
论文题名: Building ecosystem resilience for climate change adaptation in the Asian highlands
作者: Xu J ; , Grumbine R ; E
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2014
卷: 5, 期: 6 起始页码: 709
结束页码: 718
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Biodiversity
; Ecology
; Ecosystems
; Land use
; Rivers
; Water management
; Adaptive capacity
; Building ecosystems
; Climate change adaptation
; Conservation actions
; Coordinated planning
; Cultural diversity
; Environmental security
; Strategic integration
; Climate change
英文摘要: The Asian Highlands, the vast mountainous area from Pakistan to China including the Hindu-Kush Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau, have considerable global importance; they are the source of most of the major rivers of Asia, which sustain billions of downstream dwellers, are part of four Global Biodiversity Hotspots, and support rich cultural diversity. However, climate warming in the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau has been greater than two times the global average, and regional climate appears to be shifting with potential to trigger large-scale ecosystem regime shifts ('landscape traps'). A host of other drivers-urbanization/infrastructure development, land-use/agricultural practices, upstream/downstream water management and ongoing nation-state security conflicts-interact with climate signals to produce complex changes across ecological and social systems. In response, highlands people are evolving hybrid forms of adaptive capacity where 'bottom-up' behaviors are mixing with 'top-down' state and market policies. To increase ecosystem and livelihood resilience to future change, there is a need to link upstream and downstream conservation action with local climate adaptation. While the key problem is that institutional and government capacity for coordination is low, we present four general strategies to move forward: application of cross-sector coordinated planning, strategic integration of science-based conservation with developing local-level hybrid knowledge, recognition of the critical role of governance in support of change, and increased emphasis on environmental security. We discuss these strategies for each driver of change in the region. © 2014 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76308
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, China; World Agroforestry Center, East and Central Asia, Kunming, China
Recommended Citation:
Xu J,, Grumbine R,E. Building ecosystem resilience for climate change adaptation in the Asian highlands[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2014-01-01,5(6)