A Method for Diagnosing Summer Mountain Pastures' Vulnerability to Climate Change, Developed in the French Alps

Autor: Laurent Garde, Hugues François, Baptiste Nettier, Isabelle Arpin, Hermann Dodier, Claire Deléglise
Přispěvatelé: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), FEDERATION DES ALPAGES DE L'ISERE LES ADRETS FRA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Centre d'Etudes et de Réalisations Pastorales Alpes Méditerranée (CERPAM), Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne (UR LESSEM), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), CERPAM MANOSQUE FRA
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Human systems engineering
media_common.quotation_subject
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes
Pastoralism
Vulnerability
Climate change
Development
01 natural sciences
Mountain pasture
Ecosystem services
Vulnerability assessment
climatic hazards
Environmental Chemistry
French Alps
lcsh:Environmental sciences
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
media_common
2. Zero hunger
lcsh:GE1-350
livestock farming adaptation
business.industry
Environmental resource management
15. Life on land
010601 ecology
climate change vulnerability
Geography
13. Climate action
Sustainable management
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Psychological resilience
business
pastoralism
Zdroj: Mountain Research and Development
Mountain Research and Development, International Mountain Society, 2019, 39 (2), ⟨10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-18-00077.1⟩
Mountain Research and Development, International Mountain Society, 2019, 39 (2), pp.D27-D41. ⟨10.1659/mrd-journal-d-18-00077.1⟩
Mountain Research and Development, Vol 39, Iss 2, Pp D27-D41 (2019)
ISSN: 0276-4741
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-18-00077.1⟩
Popis: International audience; Summer mountain pastures are complex coupled ecological and human systems. They provide vital forage for livestock during summer, and their traditional use is decisive for the maintenance of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and open landscapes, which benefit local populations and tourists. With climate change, the increased intensity and frequency of climatic hazards threaten the sustainable management of these systems. To foster climate adaptation in such complex systems, we developed a tool to assess their climate change-related vulnerability. The tool consists of a 3-step vulnerability analysis: first, of the inherent exposure of mountain pastures to climatic hazards based on their physical features; second, of vegetation sensitivity to climatic hazards and changes in practices; and third, of adaptive capacities that lie in the options for managing mountain pastures together with the farms using them. This work was carried out within the research and development network Sentinel Mountain Pastures, which addresses climate change adaptation issues on mountain pastures across the French Alps. We used a transdisciplinary approach that included participatory work with experts and interviews with stakeholders. We believe this diagnostic tool has high potential for practical application to support adaptation on summer mountain pastures, by allowing a shared integrative understanding of the complexity of mountain pasture systems by stakeholders. We hope this will provide new information for policymaking that enhances the resilience of summer mountain pasture systems.
Databáze: OpenAIRE