Ruishan CHEN, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Himalaya regions are frequently affected by earthquakes, more than 10 >M7 earthquakes have happened in the 21st century. Earthquakes and climate change together have brought many challenges to ecosystems in the region, from permafrost fragmentation, glacier lakes broke, carbon release, landslide and grassland degradation. Some of the impacts will sustain from years to decades. Here we took the recent two earthquakes as examples, use GIS and remote sensing to understand how the earthquake and climate change compound to ecosystem degradation in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Especially in the national parks. The framework, methods and results can help create a quick assessment of earthquakes on the ecosystem in the high mountain areas, it also can provide knowledge for sustainable development in the mountain areas by addressing earthquake and climate-related disasters.
Mots clés : earthquake|climate change|compound events|ecosystem degradation|sustainability
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