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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Published in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6/2013

01-08-2013 | Original Article

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

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

Published in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Issue 6/2013

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Abstract

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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Metadata
Title
Adapting to droughts in Yuanyang Terrace of SW China: insight from disaster risk reduction
Authors
Yehong Sun
Hongjian Zhou
Lingyun Zhang
Qingwen Min
Weixia Yin
Publication date
01-08-2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 1381-2386
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1596
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-012-9386-2

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