The 300 years cropland changes reflecting climate impacts and social resilience at the Yellow River–Huangshui River Valley, China

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abe82a

	The 300 years cropland changes reflecting climate impacts and social resilience at the Yellow River–Huangshui River Valley, China
	Chen,Qiong 2,4; Yang,Liang Emlyn 3; Luo,Jing 2; Liu,Fenggui 1,4,5; Zhang,Yili 1,5; Zhou,Qiang 2,4; Guo,Rong 2; Gu,Xijing 2
刊名	Environmental Research Letters
	2021-06-01
卷号	16 期号:6
关键词	farmland changes social resilience climate change natural hazards agro-pastoral zone Yellow River–Huangshui River valley
DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/abe82a
通讯作者	Liu,Fenggui()
英文摘要	AbstractChanges of croplands often reflect the combined impacts of both natural environment changes and social agriculture activities. Such reflections manifested more significantly in agro-pastoral transition zones, e.g. in the North and West of China. In this study, cropland changes at the Yellow River–Huangshui River Valley, as a typical agro-pastoral transition zone in northwestern China, is analyzed in terms of the changes of the total amount and spatial pattern over the past 300 years (majorly in the Qing Dynasty). The reconstructed cropland data indicated a fluctuation of cropland areas in accordance with changes of regional climate conditions, natural hazards, agriculture activities and socio-economic development. A significant decrease of cropland in the middle of the 19th century was detected, which appeared a good consistency with the frequent natural disasters in the same period and the climate cooling trend across the whole 19th century. Though in the worsening conditions, three major copping strategies maintained and developed the local socio-agriculture system: (a) land reclamation policy encouraged immigrants and military farming; (b) construction of water conservancy facilities increased agricultural productivity; (c) increasing local Tibetans learned and transformed to implementing both agriculture and pastoral productions with flexibilities depending on climate conditions. The study demonstrates that the social-agriculture system held certain resilience, which can be maintained and enhanced with appropriate political, engineering, economic, and social-cultural measures.
语种	英语
出版者	IOP Publishing
WOS记录号	IOP:1748-9326-16-6-ABE82A
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/164184]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Liu,Fenggui
作者单位	1.Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China 2.College of Geographic Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, People’s Republic of China 3.Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), 80333 Munich, Germany 4.Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Xining 810008, People’s Republic of China 5.Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen,Qiong,Yang,Liang Emlyn,Luo,Jing,et al. The 300 years cropland changes reflecting climate impacts and social resilience at the Yellow River–Huangshui River Valley, China[J]. Environmental Research Letters,2021,16(6).
APA	Chen,Qiong.,Yang,Liang Emlyn.,Luo,Jing.,Liu,Fenggui.,Zhang,Yili.,...&Gu,Xijing.(2021).The 300 years cropland changes reflecting climate impacts and social resilience at the Yellow River–Huangshui River Valley, China.Environmental Research Letters,16(6).
MLA	Chen,Qiong,et al."The 300 years cropland changes reflecting climate impacts and social resilience at the Yellow River–Huangshui River Valley, China".Environmental Research Letters 16.6(2021).