Cascading adaptation of rural livelihood to changing environment:Conceptual framework and experiment from the Koshi River basin

作     者：FANG Yi-Ping ZHU Ran ZHANG Chen-Jia Golam RASUL Nilhari NEUPANE FANG Yi-Ping;ZHU Ran;ZHANG Chen-Jia;Golam RASUL;Nilhari NEUPANE

作者机构：Institute of Mountain Hazards&EnvironmentChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610041China College of Resource and EnvironmentUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China International Centre for Integrated Mountain DevelopmentGPO Box3226KathmanduNepal Center of Research for EnvironmentEnergy and WaterKathmandu44600Nepal 

出 版 物：《Advances in Climate Change Research》 (气候变化研究进展（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第11卷第2期

页      面：141-157页

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学科分类：0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 0704[理学-天文学] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 

基　　金：The authors would like to acknowledge financial support from the NSFC-ICIMOD Joint Research Project(41661144038) 

主　　题：Cascading adaptation Rural livelihood Trans-boundary river basin SITS framework 

摘      要：Rural communities in the Koshi River basin,a trans-boundary river basin in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas,have been experiencing unprecedented difficulties for adapting with the livelihood challenges arising from floods,droughts and other climatic,environmental and socio-economic *** single purpose adaptation approach often fails to address the multiple challenges arises from cascading effects of climate change at different scales and *** fill this gap,we developed a multi-dimensional flexible adaptation framework looking at the four dimensions of adaptation,structure,issue,time,and space(SITS).The SITS framework provides a comprehensive approach for cascading adaptation at trans-boundary river basin level and it could effectively enhance the adaptive capacity and transform livelihood outcome if properly *** the SITS framework,we examined four cascading adaptation pathways for:i)reducing disaster stressors on livelihoods,ii)enhancing access to crucial livelihood capitals,iii)improving equal rights to livelihood,and iv)strengthening synergies and exploiting complementarities at trans-boundary river basin *** findings revealed that in the context of changing climate,it is necessary to employ different livelihood adaptation strategies and multiple responses simultaneously or sequentially to successfully adapt to the cascading effects of changing *** cascading adaptation may provide a sound basis on which to cope with the climate uncertainty through realistic scenarios of structure,issue,time and *** implementation,however,has several obstacles,for example,differences in national system,investment capacity,complexity of trans-boundary basin,remained particularly in trans-boundary river basin where managing transnational trade-offs and harness spatial synergies are critically important.