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To enable more effective monitoring of sustainable development for meeting targets of the post-2015 agenda, assessment is required at the sub-national level to better understand the spatial variation in factors which contribute to sustaining livelihoods. In this research we take Nepal as a case study; a nation consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world. To understand how sustainable development can effectively promote livelihood diversification, we advocate that a multidimensional spatial approach is essential for monitoring social and environmental change to aid decision-making processes. To achieve this, a multidimensional index was created to spatially explore the landscape of livelihoods across rural Nepal. A methodology was developed to quantify the livelihoods asset pentagon (human-physical-social-financial-natural) of the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. 23 socio-environmental indicators were selected to map the multidimensionality of livelihoods at the eco-development area unit level and produce the Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI). Results indicate considerable spatial variability in the factors affecting people's livelihoods across Nepal. In general, the MLI decreases as you move north and east, reflecting changes in the topographic landscape and distance from the Kathmandu Valley Outcomes suggest an effective method for monitoring change at a sub-national level; highlighting potential locations and/or livelihood strategies for improving the targeting of resources (e.g. investment of foreign aid) to facilitate more sustainable development for the future. 相似文献
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In Nepal, nearly half of the total land is covered by forest, which holds a potentially important position in promoting rural livelihoods and in alleviating rural poverty. The rural landscape that encompasses an agrarian economy, a fragile ecology, and a complex and differentiated society is changing rapidly in Nepal today. Although poverty alleviation has been one of the top priorities for national development since 1976, poverty still remains widespread, persistent and it is also an acute problem in Nepal, where people are in a state of deprivation with regard to incomes, clothing, housing, healthcare, education, sanitary facilities and human rights. Thus, Nepal is considered as one of the poorest countries in South-Asia, with 25.2% people living below the poverty line. The objective of this study was to assess changes in poverty of forest users brought on by the community forestry program, in order to analyze the level of participation in community forestry management activities. For this study, Bajhang district was chosen as the study site, which is one of the poorest and most remote districts in the country of Nepal. Different Participatory Rural Appraisal methods such as face-to face interviews, focus group discussions and key informants’ interviews including secondary data were used to gather information. The findings showed that the forest users’ participation in meetings, discussion and other activities, like community forestry management or silvicultural operation related to community forestry, was high. The assessment found that 42.3%, 32.6% and 25.1% of respondents strongly agreed, agreed and were neutral, respectively, towards the idea that poverty reduction from community forests had occurred. The results showed almost all the respondents were depended upon agriculture and/or forest resources for their livelihoods. Different ecosystem services such as ethnomedicines, aesthetic value and ecotourism, control of soil erosion/land-slides, water recharge and soil fertility have increased due to the decomposition of leaf litter. This was apparent from the formulation of community forests. Poverty in rural areas of the country is still higher than in urban areas and the incidence of poverty is the highest in the Far western Province where this research was conducted, Therefore, the government, policy makers and other stakeholders should work hand-in-hand to effectively reduce the poverty that persists in Nepal. 相似文献
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紫云自治县为全国重点扶持的特困县之一,21世纪来临之际贫困率仍高达26%,脱贫任务十分艰巨.由于贫困人口高度集中分布在五个贫困小区,区域性贫困现象突出.该文分析区情,从能力建设的战略角度,提出开发以优质杂交玉米、苡仁米为主的种植业,以山苍子、金银花、天麻为主的药材业,以生猪、黑山羊、黄牛为主的畜牧业,以大理石为主的建材加工业,以开发观光旅游资源为主的旅游业等五大优势产业.把四大优势农产品农业基地的建设、节水农业、小流域综合治理、异地开发、乡镇企业的投入和管理、观光旅游等作为重点扶持项目. 相似文献
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水贫困测量及应用的国际研究进展 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
水贫困理论导源于一般的贫困理论,该理论确定了人们为了消除贫困必须具备的五种能力.五种基本能力与人们生存发展的五种生计资本以及水贫困的五个维度三者之间存在某种对应关系;水贫困的定义仍然处于争论之中,但是任何人对它的限定至少都包含着生计资本的一个或者多个方面.水贫困的测量也经历了由单个变量到多个变量、由相等权重到不同权重、由简单到复杂的演变过程.水贫困研究结果的分析方法也有五种之多,各有所侧重.在水贫困理论研究的国际应用方面,最具有代表性的成果是Caroline Sullivan博士于2002年在测算了各国WPI的基础上,对世界上147个国家的WPI得分进行了排队,结果芬兰以78.0的得分高居榜首,海地得分35.1分,列147位,中国得51.1分,居106位,并且根据计算数据编制了全球WPI地图.在国别研究中,Claudia Heidecke于2006对贝宁全国各地区的WPI值进行了计算,经研究,建立了贝宁的WPI地理空间数据库.另外,WPI还可在流域和社区尺度上应用.近年来,水贫困理论进一步发展为WWI和CVI,显示出水贫困理论的前景和发展趋势. 相似文献
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Hassan M. El Shaer 《寒旱区科学》2015,7(1):0007-0015
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is characterized by high population growth, degraded and fragile nat-ural ecosystems, and a limited amount of arable lands. It is one of the most water-sc... 相似文献
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水贫困是长期以来备受西北地区关注的焦点问题。以宁夏为典型案例,通过建立水贫困评价指标体系,采用WPI模型计算2011-2015年区域水贫困水平,并运用地理探测器诊断出水贫困分异的主导因素,揭示水贫困动力机制,总结出水贫困地域类型。结果表明：（1）水贫困指数时空分异显著。宁夏WPI值由2011年的0.393上升到2015年的0.404,水贫困呈现缓慢改善态势,但地区差距在扩大。（2）水贫困主导因素时空变化明显。从目标层看,资源系统对宁夏水贫困影响最大,但其决定力在变小;环境系统的决定力在增大;使用系统的决定力最小。从指标层看,年降水量等10个指标q值始终在0.8以上,而年径流深等7个指标对宁夏水贫困决定力在下降。从分地区看,银川市水贫困指数分异决定力q值>0.5的有6个指标,需要提高用水效率、降低用水压力和合理配置生态用水;石嘴山市水贫困指数分异决定力q值>0.5的有11个指标,客观表明作为资源型地区发展转型过程中的矛盾所在;吴忠市水贫困指数分异决定力q值>0.5的有13个指标,今后着力要加强用水效率、用水管理和水资源高效利用水平等的统筹协调;固原市水贫困指数分异决定力q值>0.5的有4个指标,重点要提高设施水平和污染治理能力;中卫市水贫困指数分异决定力q值>0.5的有15个指标,要突出提高用水效率和设施水平。（3）水贫困地域类型划分。在水资源共同约束背景下将研究区划分为途径（设施水平）约束型区域、能力-使用（用水管理-用水效率）约束型区域、环境（用水压力-生态环境）约束型区域等3 种水贫困地域类型。 相似文献
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One of the most pressing global issues currently facing mankind is the increase in world population and its impact on the availability of freshwater. Recent estimates of water stocks and flows through the world's hydrologic cycle and their spatiotemporal variability illustrate the nature of current and projected water disparities throughout the world. As all such problems manifest themselves at smaller scales, a major challenge in freshwater assessments is how to handle this on different geographical scales. Increasing use of water is creating water shortages in many countries that are projected to have significant population increases in the next 25 years. Humankind is projected to appropriate from 70% to 90% of all accessible freshwater by 2025. Agriculture is the dominant component of human water use, accounting for almost 70% of all water withdrawals. Hence, many of the solutions to water-related food and environmental security come from within agriculture by increasing the efficiency and productivity of water use. Many factors significantly impact the increasing water demand, including population growth, economic growth, technological development, land use and urbanization, rate of environmental degradation, government programs, climate change, and others. Demand management, not increasing supply availability, is the realistic way forward. Although, thanks to market forces, the threatened exhaustion of nonrenewable resources has not happened, renewable resources, such as freshwater, remain problematic because they are vulnerable to human overuse and pollution. Climate change adds further risks and uncertainties to the global picture requiring the adoption of adaptive management in water resources based on monitoring and reevaluation. Although climate change may be perceived as a long-term problem, it needs to be addressed now because decisions today will affect society's ability to adapt to increasing variability in tomorrow's climate. If we are to balance freshwater supply with demand, and also protect the integrity of aquatic ecosystems, a fundamental change in current wasteful patterns of production and consumption is needed. Recognition of the links between rapidly growing populations and shrinking freshwater supplies is the essential first step in making water use sustainable. 相似文献
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新疆地表水资源对气候变化的响应初探 总被引：30，自引：10，他引：20
计算新疆三大区域地表水资源与气候的相关性,建立两者间的回归方程,进而探讨新疆地表水资源对气候变化的响应,得到以下几点主要结论:①新疆地表水资源对气候变化的响应具有明显的地域特点:北疆以对水文年降水的正响应为主;南疆以对5~9月温度的正响应为主,以对高山区前年的水文年降水的正响应为辅;东疆对水文年降水的正响应及5~9月温度的负响应并重,对降水的响应更重要些。②北疆:当北疆8站水文年平均降水偏多(或偏少)10%时,北疆地表水资源会偏多或偏少7.2%。③东疆:当沁城5~9月平均温度为多年平均值时,巴音布鲁克水文年降水变化±10%,东疆地表水资源会出现±5.4%的变化;当巴音布鲁克水文年降水为多年平均值时,沁城5~9月平均温度偏高(或偏低)1℃,东疆地表水资源会减少(或增多)8.3%。④南疆:当南疆4站5~9月平均温度为多年平均值时,塔什库尔干前年的水文年降水变化±10%,南疆地表水资源会出现±1.3%的变化;当塔什库尔干前年的水文年降水为多年平均值时,南疆4站5~9月平均温度偏高(或偏低)1℃,南疆地表水资源会增多(或减少)11.7%。 相似文献
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民勤绿洲水资源利用与生态系统退化分析 总被引：20，自引：12，他引：8
石羊河流域生态平衡失调,生态系统退化在我国干旱、半干旱地区内陆河流域中具有典型的代表性。通过对石羊河流域近代地表水资源开发及其绿洲变迁,近年来流域用水量分配,降水特征及其对植被的影响,流域下游民勤绿洲地下水位、水质的变化等因素多年来观测研究,认为：降水量对天然植被的生长没有大的作用;由于人口的增加,流域地表水资源分配不均,水资源开发过度,地下水位急剧下降,造成流域生态系统退化。流域经济因素促进社会因素的变化,社会因素的变化导致自然环境的变迁,社会、经济、自然诸因素相互作用,通过水资源的变化驱动石羊河流域生态系统的变化。 相似文献
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黄河上游主要产流区气候变化及其对水资源的影响——以甘南高原为例 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
利用黄河上游主要产流区甘南高原地面气象观测资料和水资源定位观测资料,分析气候、水资源变化特征，及其二者的关系，建立水资源气候模式。分析表明：黄河上游主要产流区甘南高原大部分区域降水量年际变化呈下降趋势，降水量变化线性拟合倾向率在-22.6～-9.6 mm/10a之间，降水量递减以秋季降水量递减为主，降水量减少突变点在1980—1990年之间，年际变化主要存在6～7 a短周期振荡和15 a的长周期振荡特征。气温年际变化趋势呈显著上升趋势，增温速度均大于全国增温速度，增温率以冬季最大，气温增高突变点在20世纪70年代。草地年干燥指数变化呈显著上升趋势，近50 a来甘南高原气候趋于暖干化。水资源呈显著下降趋势，水资源存在2～3 a、7～8 a、20～23 a的年际周期变化。水资源与降水量呈显著正相关，与干燥指数呈显著负相关，降水量减少，草地干燥指数上升，导致水资源减少。 相似文献
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Andrew R. McWilliam Nur Isiyana Wianti Yani Taufik 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2021,42(1):132-148
Over recent decades, sustained economic growth in Indonesia has lifted many millions of Indonesians out of poverty. But despite these developments, 28 per cent of the population still live below the official poverty line and many more remain vulnerable to falling into poverty. Coastal and fishing communities represent some of the poorer populations across Indonesia, their livelihoods increasingly threatened by deleterious environmental impacts and overfishing. This paper draws on an analysis of household surveys from two Sama Bajo fishing settlements in coastal Southeast Sulawesi. A predominantly maritime language community, Sama Bajo livelihoods are shaped by seasonal patterns of fishing and marine based harvesting and trading. Using a modified poverty survey instrument, the paper explores comparative patterns of poverty and prosperity in these two communities with a focus on livelihood dynamics, seasonality effects, and the enduring patron‐client relationships that sustain their market‐oriented way of life. Key findings highlight the vulnerability of female headed households given the highly gendered access to fishing success, and the significance of relational co‐dependencies between patron‐client networks that sustain the current patterns of fishing livelihoods. The paper highlights the need for more focussed livelihood research among vulnerable populations in Indonesia and smallholder fishing communities in particular. 相似文献
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西北地区山区融雪期气候变化对径流量的影响(英文) 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Water resources in the arid land of Northwest China mainly derive from snow and glacier melt water in mountainous areas. So the study on onset, cessation, length, tempera-ture and precipitation of snowmelt period is of great significance for allocating limited water resources reasonably and taking scientific water resources management measures. Using daily mean temperature and precipitation from 8 mountainous weather stations over the pe-riod 1960?2010 in the arid land of Northwest China, this paper analyzes climate change of snowmelt period and its spatial variations and explores the sensitivity of runoff to length, temperature and precipitation of snowmelt period. The results show that mean onset of snowmelt period has shifted 15.33 days earlier while mean ending date has moved 9.19 days later. Onset of snowmelt period in southern Tianshan Mountains moved 20.01 days earlier while that in northern Qilian Mountains moved only 10.16 days earlier. Mean precipitation and air temperature increased by 47.3 mm and 0.857℃ in the mountainous areas of Northwest China, respectively. The precipitation of snowmelt period increased the fastest, which is ob-served in southern Tianshan Mountains, up to 65 mm, and the precipitation and temperature in northern Kunlun Mountains increased the slowest, an increase of 25 mm and 0.617℃, respectively, while the temperature in northern Qilian Mountains increased the fastest, in-creasing by 1.05℃. The annual runoff is also sensitive to the variations of precipitation and temperature of snowmelt period, because variation of precipitation induces annual runoff change by 7.69% while change of snowmelt period temperature results in annual runoff change by 14.15%. 相似文献
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Balancing urban and peri-urban exchange: water geography of rural livelihoods in Mexico 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Díaz-Caravantes RE 《The Geographical journal》2012,178(1):42-53
The peri-urban area is the region where there is a more dynamic interaction between the urban and rural. The peri-urban area supplies natural resources, such as land for urban expansion and agricultural products to feed the urban population. In arid and semi-arid lands, such as northern Mexico, these areas may also be the source of water for the city's domestic demand. In addition, scholars argue that peri-urban residents may have a more advantageous geographical position for selling their labour and agricultural products in cities and, by doing so, sustaining their livelihoods. A considerable number of studies have examined the peri-urban to urban natural resources transfer in terms of land annexation, housing construction, and infrastructure issues; however, the study of the effects of the reallocation of peri-urban water resources to serve urban needs is critical as well because the livelihoods of peri-urban residents, such as those based on agriculture and livestock, depend on water availability. In the case of Hermosillo there is a tremendous pressure on the water resources of peri-urban small farm communities or ejidos because of urban demand. Based on interviews and structured surveys with producers and water managers, this paper examines how peri-urban livelihoods have been reshaped by the reallocation of the city's natural resources in many cases caused some ejido members or ejidatarios to lose livelihoods. 相似文献
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水文水资源系统对气候变化的响应 总被引：25，自引：5，他引：20
分别从水文系统的降水、蒸发、径流和土壤水分及水资源系统供水、需水和水资源管理等方面综述了区域水文水资源对气候变化的响应,提出了作者的看法。自从工业革命以来,由于人类改造自然界的能力日益增强,使大气中CO2及其它温室气体的浓度大幅度上升,导致温室效应,使全球气候变暖,对天气系统、生态系统及水文水资源系统等带来重大的影响。 相似文献
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The Arab region covers an area over 13 million square kilometers in size, with almost 90% of its area classified as arid or extremely arid with very little precipitation, extremely high evaporation and almost no vegetation cover. The region is classified in many international reports as the poorest region in the world in the context of renewable water resources and critical water scarcity which hinders the socio-economic development of many countries in this region. The rapidly increasing population has reduced the per capita share of renewable water to less than the poverty line of 1,000 m 3 /(capita·a) and, in some Arab countries, to less than the extreme poverty line of 500 m 3 /(capita·a). This has led to over-exploitation of non-renewable groundwater and desalination of salty water in many countries with considerable costs and contamination of many renewable sources. Atmospheric processes responsible for aridity in the Arab region are projected to intensify due to climate change, resulting in an alarming decrease in precipitation and increase in evaporation rates. Many concerned entities in the region consider water security as a key element for food security and ultimately political stability. Hence, various efforts have been exerted to identify key problems and suggested solutions. The Arab Water Ministers Council of the Arab League, as well as Reports of the Arab Forum for the Environment and Development (AFED) and the recommendations of the 13th Regional Meeting of the Arab National Committees of the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO (IHP), have all made similar recommendations on the need to address the issues of water scarcity in the Arab region which will be further discussed in this paper. However, none of these reports focused on "Water Conservation" as an equally important action for coping with water scarcity in the region. There are many definitions for "Water Conservation" in the scientific literature, including huge water savings from irrigation, industrial use, and domestic use as well as methods and approaches for augmenting water supply through non-conventional practices such as water harvesting and waste water reuse. In this paper, a review is provided for definitions, methods and impacts of water conservation and its role in alleviating water scarcity in the Arab region. 相似文献
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基于地理加权回归的中国灰水足迹人文驱动因素分析 总被引：6，自引：2，他引：4
根据Hoekstra和Chapgain提出的污染物吸纳理论,估算了2012年全国31个省（区、市）的灰水足迹,采用空间自相关分析方法探讨了2012年中国灰水足迹的空间分布特征,通过构建基于地理加权回归的STIRPAT模型,测算了人口和富裕等人文因素对灰水足迹的影响。结果表明：中国灰水足迹存在较强的空间正相关性和空间分布不均衡性;人文因素对水资源环境的威胁大小排序,依次为城市化率、人口数量、产业结构和富裕程度,其中,城市化率、人口数量、农业比重和人均GDP每提高1%,分别引起灰水足迹增加1.03%、0.85%、0.63%和0.52%;人文因素对灰水足迹的影响存在空间差异,人口对灰水足迹的影响由北向南逐步加大,富裕对灰水足迹的影响由西向东逐渐减小,农业和城市化对灰水足迹的影响由南向北逐步增大;在现有样本范围内,计算结果有条件地支持环境Kuznets曲线。 相似文献
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Recent climate change has brought changes to the water regime that has affected the traditional agro-pastoral production systems
and livelihoods in the Upper Kaligandaki Basin of the Nepal Himalayas. Based on fieldwork and available meteorological and
hydrological data, this paper examines the changing water regime and various adaptation strategies that local farmers have adopted
in this cold arid region. Increasing temperature and decreasing rainfall and snowfall have resulted in a negative water balance.
In this scenario, farmers have implemented six major adaptive strategies in the trans-Himalayan Upper Mustang Valley. 相似文献
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This paper explores the evolution of land use and natural resource management strategies over the past twenty to fifty years in a remote Sahelian region. The empirical example is Karagou village in SE Niger. Building on an in-depth survey from 1992 and a targeted, follow-up analysis of contemporary land use strategies in 2011, the change process is scrutinized.The analysis uses the conceptual lenses of land systems science, human–environmental timelines, and the notion of multiple exposures. Enabling and constraining conditions for local livelihoods in terms of the resource base (landscape, water, and population) are described. Results characterize how land use strategies have developed and how local people opportunistically use different landscape elements such as dune landscapes, valley bottoms (bas-fonds) and oases (cuvettes). Major concerns are rainfall variability, saturation of cropland, and perceived dwindling groundwater resources. It is concluded that the land use and livelihood strategies have remained remarkably stable in the face of the changing socio-ecological fringe conditions, but that this situation may hamper a sustainable transformation. 相似文献