Wild rangelands : conserving wildlife while maintaining livestock in semi-arid ecosystems /

Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of the world's livestock, while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from hum...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Du Toit, Johan T., Kock, Richard, Deutsch, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Conservation science and practice series ; no. 6.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A review of rangeland conservation issues in an uncertain future / Monica L. Wrobel, Kent H. Redford
  • Riding the rangelands piggyback: a resilience approach to conservation management / Brian Walker
  • Addressing the mismatches between livestock production and wildlife conservation across spatio-temporal scales and institutional levels / Johan T. du Toit
  • Rangeland conservation and shrub encroachment: new perspectives on an old problem / Steven R. Archer
  • Health and disease in wild rangelands / Richard Kock [and others]
  • Contemporary views of human-carnivore conflicts on wild rangelands / Alexandra Zimmermann [and others]
  • Financial incentives for rangeland conservation: addressing the show-us-the-money challenge / Ray Victurine, Charles Curtin
  • Biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical rangelands / Stephen T. Garnett [and others]
  • Livestock grazing and wildlife conservation in the American West: historical, policy and conservation biology perspectives / Thomas L. Fleischner.
  • Guanaco management in Patagonian rangelands: a conservation opportunity on the brink of collapse / Ricardo Baldi [and others]
  • Multiple use of Trans-Himalayan rangelands: reconciling human livelihoods with wildlife conservation / Charudutt Mishra [and others]
  • Herders and hunters in a transitional economy: the challenge of wildlife and rangeland management in post-socialist Mongolia / Katie M. Scharf [and others]
  • Social and economic challenges for conservation in east African rangelands: land use, livelihoods and wildlife change in Maasailand / Katherine Homewood, D. Michael Thompson
  • The future for wildlife on Kenya's rangelands: an economic perspective / Michael Norton-Griffiths, Mohammed Y. Said
  • Synthesis: Local and global solutions to the challenge of keeping rangelands wild / James C. Deutsch.