Climate capacity:the measurement for adaptation to climate change

作     者：Jiahua Pan Yan Zheng Jianwu Wang Xinlu Xie 

作者机构：Institute for Urban and Environmental StudiesChinese Academy of Social Sciences Research Center for Sustainable DevelopmentChinese Academy of Social Sciences Legal Centre for Land and Mineral ResourcesThe Ministry of Land and Resources 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Population,Resources and Environment》 (中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第13卷第2期

页      面：99-108页

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

主　　题：climate change climate capacity adaptation development climate change economics 

摘      要：This article proposed the concept ofclimate capacityas a way of measuring human s adaptiveness to climate *** article also focused on the related concepts like ecological carrying capacity,water resources carrying capacity,land carrying capacity as well as population carrying *** concept of climate capacity was articulated against a background of global climate and environmental ***,China s efforts to adapt to climate change was a matter of improving climate capacity,which is the ecosystem as well as the frequency,the intensity and the scale of human s social activities that the climatic resources of a particular geographic area were supposed to *** climate capacity has two *** is the natural climate capacity,which includes temperature,sunlight,precipitation,extreme climatic events,*** other is the derived climate capacity,which includes water resources,land resources,ecological systems,climatic risks,*** climate capacity can be developed or be transferred between regions by taking engineering,technology or regime-based adaptive ***,these adaptive measures must be implemented under the principle of economic rationalism,ecological integrity,climate protection,and social *** is expected that by combining the climate capacity and its threshold value with the assessment of climate change risks,we are able to predict the optimal population carrying capacity and the scale of socioeconomic development,and furthermore,provide policy support for the socioeconomic development strategy and adaptive *** the regions with high climate capacity,there is a symbiotic relationship between adaptation and socioeconomic ***,in the regions with limited climate capacity,irrational development may further damage the *** the Yangtze River delta,a region with high climate capacity,and a region of Ningxia,a region with limited climate capacity,as illustrative examples,the author