China’s Actions on Adaption to Climate Change

TY - CHAP

T1 - China’s Actions on Adaption to Climate Change

AU - Li, Yijing

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Climate change has induced more frequent occurrence of disasters like droughts and floods, severe shortage and spatial disparity of water resources, sharp drop of biodiversity and serious threats to ecological safety, all of which are taken as major challenges for economic and social development. China as one of the most been influenced countries by climate change, is urged to realize the problems and effects posed by climate change, and further to take corresponding actions to adapt to it. This chapter has summarized the problems arisen from climate change in China in major fields: agriculture, grassland livestock husbandry, water resources, ecosystem and biodiversity, forestry, coastal resources, and human health; and further discussed the effects caused by climate change respectively more in detail, as well as the adaption actions been taken at the national scale correspondingly.

AB - Climate change has induced more frequent occurrence of disasters like droughts and floods, severe shortage and spatial disparity of water resources, sharp drop of biodiversity and serious threats to ecological safety, all of which are taken as major challenges for economic and social development. China as one of the most been influenced countries by climate change, is urged to realize the problems and effects posed by climate change, and further to take corresponding actions to adapt to it. This chapter has summarized the problems arisen from climate change in China in major fields: agriculture, grassland livestock husbandry, water resources, ecosystem and biodiversity, forestry, coastal resources, and human health; and further discussed the effects caused by climate change respectively more in detail, as well as the adaption actions been taken at the national scale correspondingly.

U2 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03816-8_17

DO - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03816-8_17

M3 - Chapter

SP - 129

BT - International Climate Protection

PB - Springer

ER -