scholarly journals Feng Shui and Imperial Examinations: A Case Study on the 1849 Severe Flood in Nanjing and Discussions on Flood Discharge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengrong Xu ◽  
Yuda Yang ◽  
Tao Sun
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Institutional Culture ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Feng Shui ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Severe Flood ◽  
Nanjing City ◽  
Traditional Cultures ◽  
Imperial Examinations

Abstract Social adaptations to natural hazards have been influenced by various social and economic factors including traditional cultures such as Feng Shui that is known as Chinese geomancy. This study examined not only the progressive processes and spatial distribution of the 1849 severe flood in Nanjing city but also subsequent countermeasures based on historical documents, maps, and digital elevation model (DEM) data. As an adaptation to extreme floods, a project that connects Xuanwu Lake to the Yangtze River has been deeply discussed to relieve the flood risk. As the role of the traditional concept of Feng Shui in China was not neglectable, however, local officials and elites of Nanjing city worried that the project may destroy the Feng Shui of the city, which may bring misfortune to local candidates in the Imperial Examinations, their future promotion, and the prosperity of their families. This indicates that, in the complicated traditional Chinese society, such traditional cultures may play an important role in determining social adaptations to climate change. However, these concepts may not lead to a consensus without specific institutional culture. Hence, in a complicated traditional society, the institutional culture was also fundamental to build social adaptations to climate change. This project has been eventually completed in 1931 as the concepts have kept dynamically being changed in a complicated society, which demonstrates that the relationship between the culture and the social adaptation to climate change is also evolving.

Climate change: Social adaptation strategies for fishermen

Marine Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 256-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril ◽  
Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah ◽  
Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Social Adaptation

scholarly journals Scoping Out Elements of Sociocultural Adaptation in European Urban Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Cavicchi ◽  
Atle Wehn Hegnes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Behavioral Biology ◽  
Sociocultural Adaptation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Urban Contexts

This paper explores and sheds light on the elements, complexity, and dynamics of sociocultural adaptation to innovation and climate change in European Urban Agriculture. We use a scoping-exploratory review to search and unveil elements of sociocultural adaptation (SCA) in the existing literature on European urban agriculture. We categorize these elements into three main categories. This categorization can inform and be further explored, operationalized, and developed in new case-study-based research and serve as a starting point to better understand social adaptation to innovation and climate change in urban contexts, and beyond. Key results draw attention to (a) socio-technical and socio-ecological innovations as critical to sociocultural adaptation to innovation and climate change (b) some elements of SCA identified through the scoping review seem more central than others for the adaption process (c) we are left with the question of whether we need to bridge social science with biology sciences, such as human behavioral biology and neurobiology to find the answer to deeper questions about SCA.

scholarly journals International Real Estate Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-346
Author(s):  
Chu-Chia Lin ◽  
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Chien-Liang Chen ◽  
Ya-Chien Twu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Feng Shui ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Housing Units

Feng-shui is an old and traditional body of knowledge in Chinese society. Feng-shui has a significant influence on many aspects in daily life for most Chinese, including choosing locations for dwelling units, offices, burial sites, and so on. However, there have been few studies on the impact of feng-shui on housing prices. By applying a housing hedonic equation and a data set of 77,624 observations in Taiwan, we have attempted to estimate the impact of feng-shui on housing prices. We find that all six types of bad feng-shui have a significantly negative impact on housing prices. Moreover, by applying a quantile regression, we find that most of the bad feng-shui has a stronger negative impact on expensive dwelling units. Our findings confirm that people who buy expensive housing units care about feng-shui more than those who buy less expensive housing units.

scholarly journals Climate Change Adaptation and Traditional Cultures in Northern Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 116 (792) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Susan Crate
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Physical Vulnerability ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
Traditional Cultures ◽  
Northern Russia

Northern Russia's physical vulnerability to climate change is at best severe, considering the underlying permafrost and the threat that warming presents to that foundation.

scholarly journals Mitigation and Adaptation Analysis of the Climate Change Impact Using Sustainable Livelihood Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.5) ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deffi Ayu Puspito Sari ◽  
Faroby Falatehan ◽  
Diki Surya Irawan ◽  
Gede Sedana ◽  
Robbi Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Actual Condition ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to identify and analyze the farmers’ perception of the climate variability and the impacts of the climate variability, identify and analyze the vulnerability and the income of the farmers due to the climate variability, identify and analyze the farmer strategy in anticipating and adapting the climate variability and recommending the adaptation mechanism based on engineering, institutional, technological, social, economic, and cultural organizations to the farmer in responding to the climate variability. Most of the farmers know and understand the climate change information from the television. Farmers mostly feel this climate change through the increase in temperature and the number of dry days. The impact of the climate change affects the livelihood of the farmers, not a few farmers suffered the losses due to the decreased in productivity. To reduce the decrease in income, the farmers increase the use of input, thus affecting the income of the farmers. The results of a comparison of the farmers between 2009 and 2015, there is an increase in productivity and revenue, but this increase is lower than the increased costs incurred by the farmers. This resulted in lower revenues of the farmers in 2015 than in 2009. There are 3 kinds of the strategies which is undertaken by the farmers: economic, ecological and social adaptation. For the economic adaptation, the expectations of the farmers to the capital assets are higher than the actual condition. Ideally, the highest ideal expected by the farmers is physical capital, while the lowest is social capital. Meanwhile, for the ecological adaptation, the community seeks to improve the irrigation channel, replace commodities and utilize the appropriate technology. As for the social adaptation, farmers are expecting the help from the government.  The policy implications from this research are: 1) the farmer in Jatiluwih are mostly aware of climate change, some strategies have been implemented by the farmers to maintain their income that affected by the climate change such as to work in the city or become a tour guide in their area. Based on the analysis of the sustainable livelihood, the farmers' expectation of physical capital such as electricity, water, irrigation, and roads are relatively high compared to the other capital. Because of the cost of supply is high, the provision of the physical capital is not easy, the government intervention is needed. Therefore, the farmers are expecting the government to be able to improve the condition of these facilities, especially for the irrigation. Irrigation plays an important role in farming. 2) The social capital of the farmers is high, the farmers have a good relationship with the government, indigenous people, and farmer groups. Therefore, in addition to providing the physical assistance, the government can also conduct the guidance and socialization on reducing the impact of the climate change through farmer or cultural group.   

scholarly journals Study on Feng Shui (Geomantic) Suitability Evaluation of Mausoleums in Nanjing City Based on GIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 752
Author(s):  
Jing Cui ◽  
Yanrong Liu ◽  
Junlin Sun ◽  
Di Hu ◽  
Handong He
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Feng Shui ◽  
Actual Distribution ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Suitability Evaluation ◽  
Nanjing City

Taking the mausoleums in the main urban area of Nanjing city as the study object, with the support of GIS technology, this paper extracts eight influencing factors (surface roughness, elevation, surface cutting depth, surface peaks, outfall, river system, slope, and aspect) corresponding to geomantic elements (“Long”, “Sha”, “Shui”, and “Xue”) in the geographical environments of mausoleums. The AHP is applied in the correlation weight method to calculate the weights of the eight influencing factors, while the information content method is applied in the grading method to calculate the numerical index of each factor. The feng shui (geomantic) suitability of the mausoleums in the main urban area of Nanjing is evaluated using the AHP-weighted information content method and by combining expert knowledge and experience with mathematical statistical techniques. According to the feng shui (geomantic) suitability evaluation results obtained for the mausoleums in the study area, the relatively low-suitability area accounts for 14.55% of the entire study area, the low-suitability area accounts for 25.40%, the suitable area accounts for 29.13%, the relatively high-suitability area accounts for 22.00%, and the high-suitability area accounts for 8.92%. Finally, through a sensitivity analysis of the model, a verification analysis applied using random mausoleums and a feng shui (geomantic) analysis of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the feng shui (geomantic) suitability evaluation results obtained for the mausoleums analyzed herein are found to be consistent with the actual distribution of the mausoleum sites. The research shows that the AHP-weighted information method based on GIS is suitable for evaluating the feng shui (geomantic) suitability of mausoleums.

scholarly journals Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors as Reflected in Death Rituals in a Chinese Village

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Southwestern China ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Feng Shui ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
Death Ritual ◽  
Ethnographic Data

AbstractDeath rituals have played an important role in Chinese society for thousands of years. This article, based on ethnographic data collected in a village in Chongqing in southwestern China, reconstructs the sequence of preburial, funeral, and postburial rituals performed by the villagers. Then it discusses the belief system associated with these rituals, which includes traditional Chinese cosmology, the nature of ancestors, and the roles of feng shui. It concludes that the death ritual in this village helps people adjust to life in fast-changing, modern rural China.

Assessment of Social Adaptation Capacity of Malaysian Fishermen to Climate Change

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 876-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence D`Silva ◽  
HayrolAzril Mohamed Sh ◽  
Bahaman Abu Samah ◽  
Jegak Uli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Capacity
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