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

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 a...

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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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Table of Contents:
  • A Participatory Framework for Building Resilient Social-Ecological Pastoral Systems / Julia A. Klein, Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, Han Wei, Yu Changqing, Du Ling, Dulamsuren Dorligsuren and Robin S. Reid
  • Situational Geography, Case Studies and Cross-Cultural Collaborative Studies / Melinda Laituri and Jessica Thompson
  • The Eurasian Steppe : History of Utilization and Policies on the Rangeland / Dalintai, Batjav Batbuyan, Li Yanbo and Cao Jianjun
  • Adaptation and Innovation Under Re-Centralized Policies : Grassland Management through Democratic Consultation in an Agro-Pastoral Village / Wang Xiaoyi, Zhang Qian, Hong Jianjun, Wang Shuguo, Chi Xiqi, Li Xuemei, Na Ren and Li Jindong
  • The New Otor : Risk Management in a Desert Grassland / Dalintai, Naren Gauwau, Li Yanbo, J. Enkhee and Liu Shurun
  • A Case Study of Community-Based Rangeland Management in Jinst Soum, Mongolia / Baival Batkhishig, Ban di Oyuntulkhuur, Tsevlee Altanzul and María E. Fernández-Giménez
  • Customary Community-Based Rangeland Management : a Case Study of Kazak Nomadism and Rangeland Management in Xinjiang / Yu Changqing, Altay Taibazar, Wang Huijuan, Chen Xiangjun, Zhang Mi, Telek Yibat and Nurlan Hazaiz
  • Research on the Management Models in Pastoral Areas in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau : a Case Study of Maqu, Gansu Province / Cao Jianjun, Yang Yangyang and Du Guozhen
  • Lessons from a Territory-Based Community Development Approach in Mongolia : Ikhtamir Pasture User Groups / Dulamsuren Dorligsuren, Batjav Batbuyan, Bulgamaa Densambu and Steven R. Fassnacht
  • Slowing Grassland Degradation through Innovative Herder Community Management : Experiences from Huolonggou Tibetan Village / Han Wei and Du Ling
  • The Market, the State and the Environment : Implications for Community-Based Rangeland Management / Wang Xiaoyi and María E. Fernández-Giménez
  • Synthesis : Rangeland and Community Resilience in China and Mongolia / María E. Fernández-Giménez, Baival Batkhishig and Wang Xiaoyi.

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