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01.08.2013 | Original Article

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

verfasst von: Yehong Sun, Hongjian Zhou, Lingyun Zhang, Qingwen Min, Weixia Yin

Erschienen in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Ausgabe 6/2013

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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.

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Titel: Adapting to droughts in Yuanyang Terrace of SW China: insight from disaster risk reduction
verfasst von: Yehong Sun
Hongjian Zhou
Lingyun Zhang
Qingwen Min
Weixia Yin
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change / Ausgabe 6/2013
Print ISSN: 1381-2386
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-1596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-012-9386-2

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