Tibetan Pastoralism under Climate and Socio-economic Change: Carbon Footprint Assessment and beyond - Research Plan and Preliminary Results

Chaohui Li, Chaohui Li, Xudong Wu, Xudong Wu, Kuang Chen, Dan Lo, Junxian Dai, Dongxue Xia, Guoqian Chen

2021

Abstract

As the “Third Pole” of the world, the Tibetan Plateau is especially vulnerable to anthropogenic environmental disturbances and climate change variations. With an alpine grassland dominated landscape, nomadic grazing is one of the major anthropogenic activities on the Tibetan Plateau. In this study, we present a research plan with preliminary results that aim to quantify the human carbon footprint in a typical Tibetan nomadic area (Namtso village, Damsung County) through semi-structured interviews and on-site fieldwork, complementary to using existing data, which may suffer from restrictions and inaccuracies due to the special ecological conditions of the Tibetan Plateau and the nomadic characteristic of the inhabitants. After obtaining a detailed first-hand inventory list of the activities of human and grazing animals, the method of systems process analysis and life cycle analysis can be used to calculate the annual carbon footprint of a nomadic grazing unit, as well as the water footprint, energy footprint, and land footprint of the nomadic activities on the Tibetan Plateau. The obtained results will provide a comprehensive dataset and analysis of Tibet’s nomadic pastoralist activities, which is conducive to a better understanding of the linkages between the ecological and economic activities on the Earth’s third pole and global climate change.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Li C., Wu X., Chen K., Lo D., Dai J., Xia D. and Chen G. (2021). Tibetan Pastoralism under Climate and Socio-economic Change: Carbon Footprint Assessment and beyond - Research Plan and Preliminary Results. In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering - Volume 1: CoEEE, ISBN 978-989-758-599-9, pages 122-128. DOI: 10.5220/0011536200003355

in Bibtex Style

@conference{coeee21,
author={Chaohui Li and Xudong Wu and Kuang Chen and Dan Lo and Junxian Dai and Dongxue Xia and Guoqian Chen},
title={Tibetan Pastoralism under Climate and Socio-economic Change: Carbon Footprint Assessment and beyond - Research Plan and Preliminary Results},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering - Volume 1: CoEEE,},
year={2021},
pages={122-128},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011536200003355},
isbn={978-989-758-599-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering - Volume 1: CoEEE,
TI - Tibetan Pastoralism under Climate and Socio-economic Change: Carbon Footprint Assessment and beyond - Research Plan and Preliminary Results
SN - 978-989-758-599-9
AU - Li C.
AU - Wu X.
AU - Chen K.
AU - Lo D.
AU - Dai J.
AU - Xia D.
AU - Chen G.
PY - 2021
SP - 122
EP - 128
DO - 10.5220/0011536200003355