气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.014
	Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China
	Wang J.; Brown D.G.; Agrawal A.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:6
英文摘要	Climate variability has been evident on the Mongolian plateau in recent decades. Livelihood adaptation to climate variability is important for local sustainable development. This paper applies an analytical framework focused on adaptation, institutions, and livelihoods to study climate adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands. A household survey was designed and implemented in each of three broad vegetation types in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. The analytical results show that livelihood adaptation strategies of herders vary greatly across the border between Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China. Local institutions played important roles in shaping and facilitating livelihood adaptation strategies of herders. Mobility and communal pooling were the two key categories of adaptation strategies in Mongolia, and they were shaped and facilitated by local communal institutions. Storage, livelihood diversification, and market exchange were the three key categories of adaptation strategies in Inner Mongolia, and they were mainly shaped and facilitated by local government and market institutions. Local institutions enhanced but also at times undermined adaptive capacity of herder communities in the two countries, but in different ways. Sedentary grazing has increased livelihood vulnerability of herders to climate variability and change. With grazing sedentarization, the purchase and storage of forage has become an important strategy of herders to adapt to the highly variable climate. The multilevel statistical models of forage purchasing behaviors show that the strategies of livestock management, household financial capital, environmental (i.e., precipitation and vegetation growth) variability, and the status of pasture degradation were the major determinants of this adaptation strategy. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Climate adaptation; Herder communities; Local institutions; Mongolian grasslands; Rural livelihoods
学科领域	climate change; climate variation; community care; comparative study; grassland; numerical model; precipitation (climatology); rural population; state role; sustainable development; vegetation type; China; Mongolia; Nei Monggol
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; climate variation; community care; comparative study; grassland; numerical model; precipitation (climatology); rural population; state role; sustainable development; vegetation type; China; Mongolia; Nei Monggol
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117868
作者单位	School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang J.,Brown D.G.,Agrawal A.. Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China[J],2013,23(6).
APA	Wang J.,Brown D.G.,&Agrawal A..(2013).Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China.Global Environmental Change,23(6).
MLA	Wang J.,et al."Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China".Global Environmental Change 23.6(2013).