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Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia Balancing Improved Livelihoods, Biodiversity Conservation and Land Protection /
This volume of 18 chapters is the work of more than 30 authors, many of whom are natives of the Central Asian region or are researchers who have dedicated a large part of their working lives to studying the dynamics of people, livestock and climate (both physical and socio-political) in this vast an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- List of figures
- List of Boxes
- PART 1 The Context
- 1. Central Asia's Bio-Physical Context: Key Features, Challenges, Responses and Opportunities
- 2. Better land stewardship: an economic and environmental imperative if there is to be sustainable development
- 3. Evolution of land use in nomadic culture in Central Asia with special reference to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
- PART 2 Land stewardship: from concept to practice
- 4. Land stewardship in practice - An example from the Eastern Pamirs of Tajikistan
- 5. Better land stewardship to avert poverty and land degradation in Afghanistan
- 6. Extensive Livestock Production: Afghanistan's Kuchi herders, risks to and strategies for their survival
- 7. Constraints and barriers to better land stewardship: analysis of PRAs in Tajikistan
- PART 3 Protecting Rural livelihoods: the key to land stewardship
- 8. Rural livelihoods in Tajikistan: what factors and policies influence the income and well-being of rural families
- 9. Livestock management problems and policies in Tajikistan: implications for land stewardship
- 10. Rangeland-based livestock: a vital sub sector under threat in Tajikistan
- PART 4 Creating the enabling environment
- 11. Pastoral Tenure in Central Asia: theme and variation in the five former Soviet republics
- 12. Governance and the role of institutions in sustainable development
- 13. Land Tenure Reform in Tajikistan: Implications For Land Stewardship and Social Sustainability: A Case study
- PART 5 Land protection
- 14. Engaging with land users; the first steps on a long road
- 15. Fostering community-based stewardship of wildlife in Central Asia: transforming snow leopards from pests into valued assets
- 16. Participatory Management of Desert Rangelands to Improve Food Security and Sustain the Natural Resource Base in Uzbekistan
- PART 6 Where to from here?
- 17. International perspectives on legislative and administrative reforms as an aid to better land stewardship in Central Asia
- 18. Conclusions and a way forward
- Glossary of terms
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Index.