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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Center for International Forestry Research.

Grice, A. C. (Anthony C.)

Hodgkinson, K. C. (Ken C.)

Conference Name:

International Rangeland Congress (6th : 1999 : Townsville, Qld.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rangelands--Congresses.

Rangelands.

Range management--Congresses.

Range management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxon ; New York, NY : CABI Pub. in association with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-82916-8

9786610829163

0-85199-753-8

OCLC:

476055782