The Adaptive Countermeasures against Permafrost Degradation in Northeast China

The climate change and the intensifying human activity cause the permafrost degradation in Northeast China. Six typical counties have been selected to investigate with some questionnaires and field study. The current situations of the local adaptive permafrost degradation are as follows: the local residents pay great attention to the climate changes, the effect of the ecologic protection policy is quite prominent, the adjustment of the industry structure has great potentials, but the management system of forestry has its deficiencies. The capability of adapting to the permafrost degradation in these areas is quite weak. The reasons are: the bad natural conditions and the vulnerable ecology, the low income of local people and their vulnerable adaptive capability, the difficult to employ forestry workers, the graze-oriented lifestyle of pastoralists in grassland areas and the lack of correspondingly alternative plans. In terms of the practical situations of these areas, the countermeasures for solving the probl