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Building Resilience of Human-Natural Systems of Pastoralism in the Developing World, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Coordinators: Dong Shikui, Kassam Karim-Aly S., Tourrand Jean François, Boone Randall B.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Building Resilience of Human-Natural Systems of...:
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Chapter 1 Overview: Pastoralism in the world.- Chapter 2 Vulunerability and resilience of coupled HUMAN-NATURAL systems of worldwide pastoralism.- Chapter 3 Maintaining Coupled HUman-natural system of pastoralism in himalayas of South Asia.- Chapter 4 Sociocultural and Ecological Systems of Pastoralism in Central Asia: Cases from the Altay and Tianshanof Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia of China and the Pamir Mountains of Badakhshan, Afghanistan.- Chapter 5 Building New Coupled Human-natural Systems for Sustainable Pasture Management in South America.- Chapter 6 Adaptation and Resilience in Pastoral Management of Mediterranean Bedouin Socio-Ecosystem in the NWCZ, Egypt.- Chapter 7 Modelling Coupled Human-Natural Systems of Pastoralism in East Africa.- Chapter 8 Conclusion
Reviews the history, distribution and patterns of pastoralism Provides an analysis framework that aims to help understand the transitions and the impacts of human-natural systems in the pastoral regions in the world
Identifies successful models in promoting coupled human-natural systems of pastoralism
Discusses ways to break the coupled human-cultural pastoralism system through examining representative cases in Central Asia, Himalaya, eastern Africa, the European Alps and South American Andes