Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau
Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau
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DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biv050
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发表时间：
2015-06-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Qi, Jiaguo
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作者：
Chen, Jiquan;John, Ranjeet;Qi, Jiaguo
耦合人类和自然系统（CHANS）的概念的核心，人类和自然组织成一个内聚的整体在多个空间和时间尺度的相互作用的子系统。在概述了实施CHANS概念的挑战之后，我们使用了广泛可用的社会，经济和生态系统措施，包括国内生产总值，人口规模，净初级生产力和牲畜及其比率，以研究1981年至2010年蒙古高原的CHANS动态。我们对过去三十年的耦合动态进行的跨境分析表明，内蒙古（IM）和蒙古（MG）之间存在鲜明的对比，政策在这些措施中发挥着不断变化的作用。为了优先考虑未来的研究CHANS的概念，我们假设，虽然IM和MG的分歧，1981-2010年主要是由市场改革，社会经济力量推动气候变化的重要性将逐渐减少IM，而在MG仍然很重要。
Central to the concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), humans and nature are organized into interacting subsystems of a cohesive whole at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Following an overview of the challenges in implementing the CHANS concept, we used widely available measures of social, economic, and ecological systems, including gross domestic product, population size, net primary productivity, and livestock and their ratios to examine CHANS dynamics on the Mongolian Plateau from 1981 to 2010. Our cross-border analysis of coupled dynamics over the past three decades demonstrated striking contrasts between Inner Mongolia (IM) and Mongolia (MG), with policies playing shifting roles in these measures. For prioritizing future research on the CHANS concept, we hypothesize that although the divergence of IM and MG for 1981-2010 was largely driven by market reforms, the importance of socioeconomic forces driving climate changes will gradually decrease in IM while remaining important in MG.