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  title info:
    title: Influence diagrams for modeling impact of landuse intensity in pastoral ecosystems in Northern Kenya
  name:
    name part: Walsh, Markus G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 67 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Changes in traditionally mobile pastoral societies in East
  abstract: Africa associated with pressures promoting sedentarization
  abstract: have prompted concern over the sustainability of these
  abstract: production systems. Past rangeland research and development
  abstract: programs in Africa have proven inadequate to alleviate these
  abstract: concerns, largely because of difficulties in translating
  abstract: knowledge about land degradation processes into terms which
  abstract: may be used in design of appropriate and economically
  abstract: justifiable land management interventions. Environmental
  abstract: complexity, lack of reliable data and multiple, frequently
  abstract: conflicting, management goals all contribute to this problem.
  abstract: To resolve questions about the sustainability of pastoral
  abstract: production systems, specialized tools consisting of simple
  abstract: spatial models for estimating landuse intensity and its
  abstract: impact on rangeland degradation risk were developed. The
  abstract: models are based on influence diagram methodology and may be
  abstract: parameterized using remotely-sensed and ancillary data. They
  abstract: provide a probabilistic impact assessment about alternative
  abstract: landuse intensities, on portions of pastoral home ranges, in
  abstract: relation to predefined management goals. Analyses for
  abstract: sensitivity and expected value of information were used to
  abstract: highlight information gaps. The various methods were
  abstract: demonstrated using a long-term dataset from a pastoral
  abstract: ecosystem in Northern Kenya.
  note: by Markus G. Walsh.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Rangeland Ecology and Management".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 1995.
  subject:
    topic: Major rangeland ecology and management
  identifier: 96-15916 UMI
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