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Rangeland degradation and recovery in China's pastoral lands
1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts
This book provides reference material for those responsible for grazing land management in China and its long-term consequences (environmental, social and economic). It responds to the urgent need to collate and review some of the major degradation experienced in China's vast pastoral lands. An outline is presented of the major biological processes and socioeconomic influences that operate in selected pastoral rangelands in China. In this book, the authors had confined their analysis to the impact on the resource from a rangeland user's perspective, but recognized the much wider impacts and urge fellow researchers to take up the challenge of addressing the environmental and social impacts of these major land degradation episodes. The historical case studies described in the book represent a failure to manage for the extreme climate variability that characterizes north and west China's vast arid rangelands.
The Context for the Study of Rangeland Degradation and Recovery in China's Pastoral Lands / Victor R. Squires and Zhang Kebin -- Historical Degradation Episodes in China : Socio-economic Forces and Their Interaction with Rangeland Grazing Systems Since the 1950s / Victor R. Squires and Yang Youlin -- An Analysis of the Effects of Climate Variability in Northern China over the Past Five Decades on People,Livestock and Plants in the Focus Areas / Lu Qi, Wang Xuequan and Wu Bo -- Mechanisms of Degradation in Grazed Rangelands / Li Xianglin -- The Mechanisms of Soil Erosion Processes by Wind and Water in Chinese Rangelands / Zhi-yu Zhou and Bin Ma -- Processes in Rangeland Degradation, Rehabilitation and Recovery / Victor R. Squires -- Case Study 1 : Hulunbeier Grassland, Inner Mongolia / Lu Xinshi, Ai Lin and Lv Shihai -- Case Study 2 : Horqin Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia / Jiang De-ming, Kou Zhen-wu, Li Xue-hua and Li Ming -- Case Study 3 : Xilingol Grassland, Inner Mongolia / Jianhui Huang, Yongfei Bai and Ye Jiang -- Case Study 4 : Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia / Yuanrun Zheng and Qiushuang Li -- Case Study 5 : Hexi Corridor, Gansu / Yuhong Li and Victor R. Squires -- Case Study 6 : Alashan Plateau, Inner Mongolia / Li Qingfeng -- Case Study 7 : Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Rangelands / Ruijun Long, Zhanhuan Shang, Xusheng Guo and Luming Ding -- Case Study 8 : Northern Xinjiang / Jin Gui-li and Zhu Jin-zhong -- Land Tenure Arrangements, Property Rights and Institutional Arrangements in the Cycle of Rangeland Degradation and Recovery / Adrian Williams, Meiping Wang and MunkhDalai A. Zhang -- Monitoring and Evaluation as Tools for Rangeland Management / Aijun Liu -- How Can the Next Degradation Episode be Prevented? / Victor R. Squires and Yang Youlin.
edited by Victor R. Squires, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, Lu Xinshi, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, Lu Qi, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, Wang Tao, Director General, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cold Arid Region Environmental & Engineering Research Institute, China and Yang Youlin, Regional Cooperation Unit of the UNCCD (Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought), Bangkok, Thailand.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, c2009.