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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780500603321

Titolo

Global rangelands : progress and prospects / / edited by A.C. Grice and K.C. Hodgkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon ; ; New York : , : CABI Pub. in association with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-280-82916-8

9786610829163

0-85199-753-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

GriceA. C (Anthony C.)

HodgkinsonK. C (Ken C.)

Disciplina

333.74

Soggetti

Rangelands

Range management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from the 6th International Rangeland Congress, held in Townsville, Australia, July 17, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Challenges for Rangeland People; 2 Future Shocks to People and Rangelands; 3 Indigenous People in Rangelands; 4 Rangelands: People, Perceptions and Perspectives; 5 Desertification and Soil Processes in Rangelands; 6 Understanding and Managing Rangeland Plant Communities; 7 Range Management and Plant Functional Types; 8 People and Plant Invasions of the Rangelands; 9 People and Rangeland Biodiversity; 10 Managing Grazing; 11 Rehabilitation of Mined Surfaces; 12 Accounting for Rangeland Resources

13 Building on History, Sending Agents into the Future - Rangeland Modelling, Retrospect and Prospect14 Integrating Management of Land and Water Resources: the Social, Economic and Environmental Consequences of Tree Management in Rangelands; 15 Land and Water Management: Lessons from a Project on Desertification in the Middle East; 16 International Perspectives on the Rangelands; 17 Policies, Planning and Institutions for Sustainable Resource Use: a Participatory Approach; 18 Economics and Ecology: Working Together for Better



Policy; 19 Building the Future: Practical Challenges; 20 Rangeland Livelihoods in the 21st Century; 21 Building the Future: a Human Development Perspective; 22 Synthesis: New Visions and Prospects for Rangelands; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text contains new concepts and systems approaches of use for the management of rangeland resources by the people that live there and the institutions and organizations that support them.