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

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, Oxon ; ; New York : , : CABI Pub. in association with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 333.74
• Soggetto topico: Rangelands; Range management
• Altri autori: GriceA. C (Anthony C.) HodgkinsonK. C (Ken C.)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global rangelands
• ISBN: 1-280-82916-8; 9786610829163; 0-85199-753-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780500603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II