Restoring Community Connections to the Land

Restoring Community Connections to the Land

Building Resilience Through Community-Based Rangeland Management in China and Mongolia

Edited by Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, Xiaoyi Wang, Batkhishig Baival, Julia A. Klein and Robin Reid
Paperback
March 2012
9781845938956
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    CABI
  • Published
    1st March 2012
  • ISBN 9781845938956
  • Language English
  • Pages 272 pp.
  • Size 6.75" x 9.75"
  • Images figures & b/w photos
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Hardback
March 2012
9781845938949
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  • Publisher
    CABI
  • Published
    1st March 2012
  • ISBN 9781845938949
  • Language English
  • Pages 272 pp.
  • Size 6.75" x 9.75"
  • Images figures & b/w photos
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The rangelands of China and Mongolia encompass diverse landscapes of global environmental and cultural significance. Pastoralists in these two nations share much common history and tradition, including their nomadic heritage and twin eras of collectivized production under different centrally planned socialist regimes. This unique collection of case studies describes 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 and Gansu Provinces. Useful for policy makers within international development and conservation policy, this book is also of interest for researchers and students of rural economics and agriculture.

Part I. Setting the Stage
1. A 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

Part II. Case Studies
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

Part III. Synthesis
11. The Market, the State and the Environment: Implications for Community-based Rangeland Management
12. Synthesis: Rangeland and Community Resilience in China and Mongolia

Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez

Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez is at Colorado State University.

Xiaoyi Wang

Xiaoyi Wang is at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC.

Batkhishig Baival

Batkhishig Baival is at Colorado State University.

Julia A. Klein

Julia A. Klein is at Colorado State University.

Robin Reid

Robin Reid is at Colorado State University.