Rangeland degradation and recovery in China's pastoral lands /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Land degradation > China.; Rangelands > Case studies. > Revegetation; Range management > Case studies.; Grasslands and Rangelands.; Erosion: Soil and Water Conservation.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Case studies.; Climatic change.; Erosion.; Evaluation.; Grazing systems.; Land degradation.; Monitoring.; Property rights.; Range management.; Rangelands.; Recovery.; Rehabilitation.; Socioeconomics.; Tenure systems.; Electronic books.
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 This book provides reference material for those responsible for grazing land management in China and its long-term consequences (environmental, social and economic). It responds to the urgent need to collate and review some of the major degradation experienced in China's vast pastoral lands. An outline is presented of the major biological processes and socioeconomic influences that operate in selected pastoral rangelands in China. In this book, the authors had confined their analysis to the impact on the resource from a rangeland user's perspective, but recognized the much wider impacts and urge fellow researchers to take up the challenge of addressing the environmental and social impacts of these major land degradation episodes. The historical case studies described in the book represent a failure to manage for the extreme climate variability that characterizes north and west China's vast arid rangelands.