Rangeland Sustainability

Author : Kristie Maczko,Aaron Harp,John Tanaka,Matt Reeves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000580976

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Rangeland Sustainability by Kristie Maczko,Aaron Harp,John Tanaka,Matt Reeves Pdf

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions. It takes a fresh look at the information available on current and emerging issues across rangelands, and presents collaborative research for future progress. Authors offer a framework for evaluating rangeland sustainability, the best available data to use, as well as an interactive tool for use at a variety of geographical scales. Readers with limited knowledge of rangelands, as well as professional rangeland ecologists and land managers, will gain an understanding of the best tools available today to assess sustainability across rangeland ecosystems in the U.S.

Author : Kristie Maczko,Aaron Harp,John Tanaka,Matt Reeves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000580969

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Rangeland Sustainability by Kristie Maczko,Aaron Harp,John Tanaka,Matt Reeves Pdf

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions. It takes a fresh look at the information available on current and emerging issues across rangelands, and presents collaborative research for future progress. Authors offer a framework for evaluating rangeland sustainability, the best available data to use, as well as an interactive tool for use at a variety of geographical scales. Readers with limited knowledge of rangelands, as well as professional rangeland ecologists and land managers, will gain an understanding of the best tools available today to assess sustainability across rangeland ecosystems in the U.S.

Author : Victor R. Squires
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 1634825845

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Rangeland Ecology, Management and Conservation Benefits by Victor R. Squires Pdf

Rangelands are a type of land that include vast grasslands, shrublands, woodland, wetlands and deserts, grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals. They comprise almost one-half of all the lands in the world. This book analyzes the sustainability of beef cattle systems of the Spanish Rangelands known as Dehesas. These systems are considered as outstanding High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems and the most agroforestry systems in Europe. Additionally, on a global scale, China has around one-eighth of the rangelands (the second largest area of land in any country other than Australia). These rangelands are mostly inhabited by peoples of various ethnic minorities. This book provides an overview of the environment and current development trends in the pastoral regions including a glimpse of the people affected most by any conservation or development effort and provide a framework for future integrated conservation and development work in the pastoral regions of north and north-west China. Furthermore, land degradation and biodiversity loss are the most critical issues of ecological environmenti n the West of China and they are the main causes for poverty and constraints for economic development. This book examines rangeland degradation in China as well as rangeland management and livestock production in an effort to arrest and reverse rangeland degradation. In other chapters, changes in vegetation related with grazing are reviewed, the benefits of reintegrating burrowing bettongs as a part of rangeland restoration programs, and integrating national feral camel management plans that are being implemented across the camel range in Australia, aiming to control the damage caused by camels (there are around 750,000 feral camels in arid and semi-arid rangelands in Australia).

Author : Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317665175

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The Governance of Rangelands by Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena Pdf

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions. This work improves our understanding of the importance of governance, how it can be strengthened and the principles that underpin good governance, in order to prevent degradation of rangelands and ensure their sustainability. It describes the nature of governance at different levels: community governance, state governance, international governance, and the unique features of rangelands that demand collective action (issues of scale, ecological disequilibrium and seasonality). A series of country case studies is presented, drawn from a wide spectrum of examples from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and North America. These provide contrasting lessons which are summarised to promote improved governance of rangelands and pastoralist livelihoods.

Author : H. Scott Butterfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Rangelands
ISBN : MSU:31293028455792

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Enhancing Rangeland Sustainability with Remote Sensing and Collaborative Information Exchange by H. Scott Butterfield Pdf

Author : Ramesh Sivanpillai
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780123964717

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Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters by Ramesh Sivanpillai Pdf

Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes that have important implications for humans. This volume, from Elsevier’s Hazards and Disasters Series, provides an in-depth view of threats, ranging from microscopic organisms to celestial objects. Perspectives from both natural and social sciences provide an in-depth understanding of potential impacts. Contributions from expert ecologists, environmental, biological, and agricultural scientists, and public health specialists selected by a world-renowned editorial board Presents the latest research on damages, causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and preparedness and mitigation Contains tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes

Author : Guy Robertson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781437989151

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National Report on Sustainable Forests -- 2011 by Guy Robertson Pdf

Author : Victor Squires,Limin Hua,Degang Zhang,Guolin Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9048196221

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Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China by Victor Squires,Limin Hua,Degang Zhang,Guolin Li Pdf

Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in China’s North West is based on the program of the International Conference Implementing GEF Objectives in a Systems Framework held in Lanzhou, Gansu, China in October 2008. This collection reviews the extent of resource debasement in China’s pastoral zones and offers solutions for their sustainable use. The five parts deal with ran- lands, and the people who manage them, and assess prospects for implementation of more sustainable rangeland/livestock production systems. Topics include Livestock husbandry development and agro-pastoral integration in Gansu and Xinjiang; Ecological restoration and control of rangeland degradation. Despite widespread degradation, the articles reveal the approaches that are likely to lead to recovery of these rangelands and better livelihoods for the local herders and farmers. Two chapters are devoted to the achievement of global environmental objectives. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation in mountain grasslands are just a few of the covered subjects. This portion of the book pays special attention to the successful results in Gansu and Xinjiang – major regions of China’s pastoral lands. The final division addresses measures to improve the profitability and susta- ability of herding and farming in the pastoral areas of north-west China There are fifteen chapters on subjects that include: Livestock management, Rangeland management interventions, Agro-pastoral integration, Improved animal husbandry practices as a basis for profitability. Land tenure and access, Environmental education, Ecological Restoration and New Management approaches for China’s northwest pastoral areas.

Author : International Livestock Centre for Africa
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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International Livestock Centre for Africa's Rangeland Research Program in the Arid and Semi-Arid Zones: Review and Recommendations by International Livestock Centre for Africa Pdf

Author : Shelley Ross Saxer,Jonathan Rosenbloom
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454898351

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Social-Ecological Resilience and Sustainability by Shelley Ross Saxer,Jonathan Rosenbloom Pdf

Social-Ecological Resilience and Sustainability by Shelley Ross Saxer and Jonathan Rosenbloom is designed to help students understand and address new, changing, and complex economic, environmental, and social systems. This book introduces resilience and sustainability as analytical frameworks and illustrates how these concepts apply in various contexts: water, food, shelter/land use, energy, natural resources, pollution, disaster law, and climate change. The first two chapters (Part I) provide students with a conceptual foundation to explore the interdisciplinary nature of resilience and sustainability and the meanings of, complexities embedded in, and the overlap and differences between these frameworks. Each of the remaining eight chapters (Part II) views resilience and sustainability in a specific law and policy context. Strategically placed throughout Part II, the authors describe eight useful tools — “Strategies to Facilitate Implementation”—to help identify, assess, integrate, or utilize resilience and sustainability as analytical frameworks. Key Features: A two-part approach that first provides students with a conceptual foundation and then allows students to view resilience and sustainability in eight law and policy contexts (described above) Numerous graphics throughout to illustrate concepts, depict events described, and otherwise enliven the content Case studies that examine human decisions that led to unsustainable and non-resilient systems and societies New and innovative ways to explain complex systems and in turn rethink traditional notions of law and policy

Author : Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317665168

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The Governance of Rangelands by Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena Pdf

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions. This work improves our understanding of the importance of governance, how it can be strengthened and the principles that underpin good governance, in order to prevent degradation of rangelands and ensure their sustainability. It describes the nature of governance at different levels: community governance, state governance, international governance, and the unique features of rangelands that demand collective action (issues of scale, ecological disequilibrium and seasonality). A series of country case studies is presented, drawn from a wide spectrum of examples from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and North America. These provide contrasting lessons which are summarised to promote improved governance of rangelands and pastoralist livelihoods.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CABI
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9781845931759

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Sustainable Forestry by Anonim Pdf

In the context of forest sustainability, this book presents the issues related to both global climate change and conservation of biodiversity. It highlights four methodologies and shows how they contribute in overcoming the ecological challenges facing our world. The practical experience presented can be applied to the implementation of successful sustainable forestry policies.

Author : E. Durant McArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Shrubland ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D029965153

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Shrubland Ecosystem Genetics and Biodiversity by E. Durant McArthur Pdf

The 53 papers in this proceedings include a section celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the Shrub Sciences Laboratory (4 papers), three sections devoted to themes, genetics, and biodiversity (12 papers), disturbance ecology and biodiversity (14 papers), ecophysiology (13 papers), community ecology (9 papers), and field trip section (1 paper). The anniversary session papers emphasized the productivity and history of the Shrub Sciences Laboratory, 100 years of genetics, plant materials development for wildland shrub ecosystems, and current challenges in management and research in wildland shrub ecosystems. The papers in each of the thematic science sessions were centered on wildland shrub ecosystems. The field trip featured the genetics and ecology of chenopod shrublands of east-central Utah. The papers were presented at the 11th Wildland Shrub Symposium: Shrubland Ecosystem Genetics and Biodiversity held at the Brigham Young University Conference Center, Provo, UT, June 13-15, 2000.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090135090

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Proceedings RMRS. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317047896

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Sustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation by Alan Terry Pdf

Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local implementation. Comparing the situation on the ground with formal national environmental action plans, the book compares progress, or the lack of progress, between different sectors, cultures, regions and resources throughout the developing world. It examines whether local knowledge and actions are undermining national aspirations or whether they are being ignored at the national level with detrimental consequences to sustainable development. The measurement of sustainable development, the role of formal and informal education in sustainable development and the significance of diverse voices in the practice of sustainable development are considered. The book draws lessons from those cases which appear to be experiencing positive moves towards sustainability and examines whether common frameworks exist which suggest that good practice may be transferable from one milieu to another.