全球变化导致的冲击和压力加剧了很多国家和地区的脆弱性，降低脆弱性已成为实现可持续发展的首要任务。本项目以地处青藏高原东缘的甘南黄河重要水源补给区为典型案例区，以“生计压力”为切入点，系统分析重点生态功能区农户的生计脆弱性。基于农户的生计脆弱性评估、农户的生计压力识别、生计压力对资产可得性及其配置方式的影响分析、生计脆弱性调控策略选择及效果评价等综合研究，本项目尝试建立以资产可得性为中心的农户生计脆弱性分析框架，探明影响农户生计脆弱性的关键因素及其作用，揭示农户的生计脆弱性形成机制，探索有效的生计脆弱性调控策略，提出切实可行的生计脆弱性调控对策，为重点生态功能区制定生计脆弱性调控政策提供科学依据与参考。

Shock and stress caused by global change has been strengthened vulnerability in many country and regions，how to effectively reduce vulnerability is the primary task to realize sustainable development. As a new research frontier in the domain of sustainability science and global environment change,vulnerability research is perceived by many researchers.This project focuses on ‘the livelihood stress’, and selects the important Yellow River water-supply area of Gannan located in the east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the study area, it is aimed to systematically analyze the farmer’s livelihood vulnerability in the key ecological function area. Based on the comprehensive research which includes the assessment of the farmer’s livelihood vulnerability, the identification of the farmer’s livelihood stress, the impact of livelihood stress on the assest’s availability and its allocation, the choice of the regulation strategies and their effectiveness evaluation, and so on, this project attempts to set up the assets-access-centered analysis framework of the farmers’livelihood vulnerability, identifies the determinants of the farmer’s livelihood vulnerability, reveals the formation mechanism of the farmer’s livelihood vulnerbility, explores the effective regulation strategies of the farmer’s livelihood vulnerability, finally, puts forward the feasible countermeasures which will regulate the farmer’s livelihood vulnerability. It strives to provide the scientific basis and decision reference for making relevant livelihood vulnerability regulaition policy in the key ecological function areas.