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 Tietan Plateau regions of China's Sichuan an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria Edith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : CABI , c2012
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Online Access:https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2011/20113385035.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A participatory framework for building resilient social-ecological pastoral systems
  • 2. Situational geography, case studies and cross-cultural collaborative studies
  • 3. The Eurasian Steppe : History of utilization and policies on the Rangeland
  • 4. Adaptation and innovation under re-centralized policies : grassland management through democratic consultation in an agro-pastoral village
  • 5. The new Otor : risk management in a desert grassland
  • 6. A case study of community-based Rangeland management in Jinst Soum, Mongolia
  • 7. Customary community-based Rangeland management : a case study of Kazak Nomadism and Rangeland Management in Xinjiang
  • 8. Research on the management models in pastoral areas in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau : a case study of Maqu, Gansu Province
  • 9. Lessons from a territory-based community development approach in Mongolia : ikhtamir pasture user groups
  • 10. Slowing grassland degradation through innovative Herder community management : experiences from Huolonggou Tibetan Village
  • 11. The market, the state and the environment : implications for community-based Rangeland management
  • 12. Synthesis : Rangeland and community resilience in China and Mongolia