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Prospects for pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan : from state farms to private flocks / edited by Carol Kerven.
Penn Museum Library SF55.K3 K47 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerven, Carol.
- Series:
- Central Asia research forum series
- Central Asia research forum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral systems--Kazakhstan.
- Pastoral systems.
- Pastoral systems--Turkmenistan.
- Privatization--Kazakhstan.
- Privatization.
- Privatization--Turkmenistan.
- Turkmenistan.
- Kazakhstan.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 'We have seen two worlds': impacts of privatisation on people, land and livestock / Carol Kerven 1
- 2 Agrarian reform and privatisation in the wider Asian region: comparison with Central Asia / Carol Kerven 10
- Part I Pastoralists and rangelands of southeast Kazakstan 27
- 3 Transhumant ecosystems: fluctuations in seasonal pasture productivity / Ilya I. Alimaev 31
- 4 Collapse of the Kazakstan livestock sector: a catastrophic convergence of ecological degradation, economic transition and climatic change / Jim Ellis, Re-Yang Lee 52
- 5 Reconfiguring property rights and land use / Roy H. Behnke Jr. 75
- 6 New patterns of livestock management: constraints to productivity / Join A. Wright, Nurlan I. Malmakov, Helene Vidon 108
- 7 Contraction in livestock mobility resulting from state farm reorganisation / Sarah Robinson, E.J. Milner-Gulland 128
- 8 Privatisation of livestock marketing and emerging socio-economic differentiation / Carol Kerven 146
- Part II Pastoralists and rangelands of the Kara Kum Desert, Turkmenistan 167
- 9 Shepherds and the state: effects of decollectivisation on livestock management / Christopher Lunch 171
- 10 The limits of the land: pasture and water conditions / Khodja Khanchaev, Carol Kerven, Iain A. Wright 194
- 11 New patterns of livestock production / Ovlyakuli Hodjakov, Iain A. Wright 210
- 12 The costs and returns of change: profiles of production and consumption by pastoralists / Ogul Fach Soyunova 228
- 13 Privatisation of livestock marketing in Turkmenistan / Caror Kerven 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0700716998
- OCLC:
- 51020281
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