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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| 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.