Contributions of multiple climate hazards and overgrazing to the 2009/2010 winter disaster in Mongolia

• Published in: Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Vol. 92; no. Suppl 1; pp. 109 - 126
• Main Authors: Nandintsetseg, Banzragch, Shinoda, Masato, Erdenetsetseg, Baasandai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.11.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal husbandry; Carrying capacity; Civil Engineering; Climate; Cold; Disaster management; Disasters; Drought; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environmental hazards; Environmental Management; Extreme cold; Extreme low temperatures; Extreme weather; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hazards; Hydrogeology; Identification; Livestock; Livestock grazing; Mortality; Natural Hazards; Original Paper; Overgrazing; Overpopulation; Pasture; Pasture management; Regression analysis; Regression models; Snow; Spatial variations; Territory; Thresholds; Winter; Mongolia; Heavy snow; Pasture carrying capacity; Mortality; Overgrazing; Severe winter; Cold temperature; Livestock

Mongolian pastoral husbandry is subject to various climate hazards such as dzud (Mongolian for “severe winter conditions”). Dzud in the 2009/2010 winter affected 80.9% of the country and killed more than 10 million livestock (23.4% of the total). To understand the natural and man-made mechanisms of...