Social resilience and its scale effects along the historical Tea-Horse Road

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 16; no. 4; p. 45001
• Main Authors: Yang, Liang Emlyn, Chen, Junxu, Geng, Jin, Fang, Yiping, Yang, Weibing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Archives & records; climate resilience; Data analysis; Empirical analysis; flood adaptation; flood resilience; Natural disasters; Resilience; scale effect; Social networks; Social organization; social resilience; spatial-temporal dynamics

Abstract This study adopted an empirical analysis to explore social resilience to major natural disasters along the Tea-Horse Road (THR) in southwest China and to understand why and how the THR and its connected communities maintained and developed over a long period. A set of archive data, literatu...