Effects of climate change on household compound ecosystems and herders’ adaptation

Abstract

Abstract: The household compound ecological system is the basic unit which responsed to climate change in the northern grasslands of China, and research on climate change adaptability is necessary to promote sustainable development in pastoral areas. With the guidance of grassland system theory and using questionnaire surveys, the response and adaptation of 599 households to climate change in Inner Mongolia, China were studied. 1) The methods of forage supply which including grazing land, mowing grassland, forage land and buying fodder in households are regionally different; 2) Extreme events, especially drought, are the key factors influencing the household compound ecological system, but there are different patterns of influence from heavy snow, sandstorms and strong winds; 3) Climate change influences the households mainly through pasture and livestock rather than soil, human and infrastructure; 4) Buying fodder and selling livestock are the main adaptive strategies. The response of the household compound systems to climate change occurs at the grassland and livestock-management interface where forage and livestock are the key nodes in the feedback process.

CLC Number:

S812.1

LI Xi-liang, HOU Xiang-yang, Leonid Ubugunov, DING Yong, DING Wen-qiang, YIN Yan-ting, YUN Xiang-jun, ZHANG Yong. Effects of climate change on household compound ecosystems and herders’ adaptation[J]. Acta Prataculturae Sinica, 2013, 22(1): 148-156.

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