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DOI	10.2166/wcc.2010.010
	Water; livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the tonle sap lake area; Cambodia: Learning from the past to understand the future
	Nuorteva P.; Keskinen M.; Varis O.
发表日期	2010
ISSN	20402244
起始页码	87
结束页码	101
卷号	1 期号:1
英文摘要	The changing environment is expected to intensify the challenges that people in developing countries are facing, particularly among the groups whose livelihoods depend on natural resources. The adaptive capacity of livelihoods largely defines the extent to which people can cope with future environmental changes, whether caused by climate change or other factors such as land use changes and water resources development. This article analyses the resilience and adaptive capacity of rural livelihoods around Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake, an exceptional lake-floodplain system dominated by flood pulse. The research findings demonstrate that despite the people's tradition of adapting to the remarkable seasonal variation of water and related resources, their capacity to adapt to unusual environmental changes is weak, with the poorest being clearly the most vulnerable group. Reasons for the weak resilience include villages' relatively homogenous livelihood structures, unjust governance practices, increasing inequality and the lack of opportunities for livelihood diversification. It is concluded that while climate change is likely to pose a remarkable challenge to people's livelihoods in the longer term, climate change adaptation activities should also take into account other environmental changes. Equally critical is the understanding of the broader socio-political context and its dynamics in increasing-and decreasing-livelihood resilience. © IWA Publishing 2010.
英文关键词	Climate change adaptation; Livelihoods; Mekong river; Resilience; Tonle sap lake; Water resources management
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate change adaptation; Livelihoods; Mekong River; Resilience; Tonle saps; Water resources management; Developing countries; Floods; Lakes; Surface water resources; Climate change
来源期刊	Journal of Water and Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/148392
作者单位	Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, 00076 AALTO, Finland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nuorteva P.,Keskinen M.,Varis O.. Water; livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the tonle sap lake area; Cambodia: Learning from the past to understand the future[J],2010,1(1).
APA	Nuorteva P.,Keskinen M.,&Varis O..(2010).Water; livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the tonle sap lake area; Cambodia: Learning from the past to understand the future.Journal of Water and Climate Change,1(1).
MLA	Nuorteva P.,et al."Water; livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the tonle sap lake area; Cambodia: Learning from the past to understand the future".Journal of Water and Climate Change 1.1(2010).