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Yu, Wenxuan; Liu, Jingjing; Dong, Po --- "The impacts of climate change on indigenous populations in China and legal remedies" [ 2013] ELECD 256 ; in Abate, S. Randall; Kronk, Ann Elizabeth (eds), "Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 441

Book Title: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

Editor(s): Abate, S. Randall; Kronk, Ann Elizabeth

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781001790

Section: Chapter 20

Section Title: The impacts of climate change on indigenous populations in China and legal remedies

Author(s): Yu, Wenxuan; Liu, Jingjing; Dong, Po

Number of pages: 27

Abstract/Description:

China’s indigenous populations are primarily concentrated in the northeast, northwest, and southwest parts of the country due to a variety of natural and socio-cultural factors. For example, indigenous populations in southwest China include ethnicities such as Menba, Naxi, Hani, Shui, Zhuang, Miao and Yi. Most of these ethnicities have their own languages, characters and religious beliefs, and they work primarily in agriculture. Many of southwest China’s indigenous populations live in communities consisting primarily of people of their own ethnicity. Depending on where these different indigenous communities are located, there are significant regional differences in the natural environment where they reside. However, one thing is common: indigenous populations live primarily in ecologically sensitive areas. In China ecologically sensitive areas refer to various natural and cultural protection zones established in accordance with law, as well as areas particularly sensitive to certain types of pollutants or elements impacting the ecology from construction projects.