Adapting to droughts in Yuanyang Terrace of SW China: insight from disaster risk reduction

作者：Sun, Yehong; Zhou, Hongjian^*; Zhang, Lingyun; Min, Qingwen; Yin, Weixia

来源：Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2013, 18(6): 759-771.

DOI：10.1007/s11027-012-9386-2

• Agricultural heritage sites
• Adaptation
• Climate change
• Drought
• Yuanyang Terrace

Despite international focus on how to facilitate adaptation to droughts in a changing climate, a good deal of adaptation will be enacted at the local level. Focusing on the Yuanyang Terrace of SW China (a very famous agricultural heritage site), this study illustrates that land use change, dynamic adaptation and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) are the main measures to reduce the drought disaster risk and have the important role in adapting to droughts based on methodology of the land use survey, household questionnaire, local government and companies' interview. And a new conceptual model of adaptation from the insight of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) was proposed in spatial, temporal and social dimensions. It is a good practice to adapt to disaster risk and agricultural heritage conservation by tourism development. Adaptive risk management is more important in adapting to disaster risk in order to maintain heritages conservation and local livelihood improvement.

• 出版日期2013-8
• 单位北京联合大学; 中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所; 北京师范大学; 民政部国家减灾中心