Global Rangelands ：Progress and Prospects

Publication subTitle ：Progress and Prospects

Author： Grice   A.C.;Hodgkinson   K.C.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2002

E-ISBN: 9780851997537

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851995236

Subject： Q94 Botany;S Agricultural Sciences;S3 Agriculture ( Agronomy )

Keyword： Botany and Plant Sciences Agricultural Science Agronomy and Crop Production

Language： ENG

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Description

Although traditionally defined as areas where natural vegetation is exploited for grazing by domestic and native herbivores, rangelands are used by many different people, for a host of purposes. As well as livestock products, rangelands provide fuels, minerals and water and are used for ecotourism, recreation, nature conservation and as carbon sinks. More than half of the earth's land surface is rangeland and millions of people, both within and outside the rangelands, depend on them. This book addresses the important issues confronting the rangelands and presents new concepts and approaches for the management of rangeland resources. It is relevant to the people who live in or depend on the rangelands, and to the institutions and organisations that support them.

Chapter

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 Prospect

14 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

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