Restoring community connections to the land : building resilience through community-based rangeland management in China and Mongolia /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Range management > Case studies. > China; Range management > Case studies. > Mongolia; Policy and Planning.; Grasslands and Rangelands.; Biological Resources (General); Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Arid lands.; Community involvement.; Environmental policy.; Gobi desert.; Nature conservation.; Range condition.; Range management.; Rangelands.; Social participation.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book contains 12 chapters providing information on case studies that describe the change, loss, re-emergence and resilience of seven herder communities located in distinct socio-ecological settings ranging from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia to the Tibetan Plateau regions of China's Sichuan and Gansu Provinces. It will be useful for policy makers within international development and conservation policy.