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Title Global rangelands : progress and prospects / edited by A.C. Grice and K.C. Hodgkinson
Published Wallingford, Oxon ; New York, NY : CABI Pub. in association with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), [2002]
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Description xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Challenges for Rangeland People -- Anthony C. Grice and Kenneth C. Hodgkinson -- 2 Future Shocks to People and Rangelands -- S. Mark Howden, Barney Foran and Roy Behnke -- 3 Indigenous People in Rangelands -- Graham Griffin -- 4 Rangelands: People, Perceptions and Perspectives -- Denzil Mills, Roger Blench, Bertha Gillam, Mandy Martin, -- Guy Fitzhardinge, Jocelyn Davies, Simon Campbell and -- Libby Woodhams -- 5 Desertification and Soil Processes in Rangelands -- David Tongway and Walter Whitford -- 6 Understanding and Managing Rangeland Plant Communities -- Steve Archer and Alison Bowman -- -- -- -- 7 Range Management and Plant Functional Types -- Sandra Diaz, David D. Briske and Sue McIntyre -- 8 People and Plant Invasions of the Rangelands -- Mark Lonsdale and Sue Milton -- 9 People and Rangeland Biodiversity -- David M.J.S. Bowman -- 10 Managing Grazing -- Mick Quirk -- 11 Rehabilitation of Mined Surfaces -- Gerald E. Schuman and Edward F. Redente -- 12 Accounting for Rangeland Resources -- Paul E. Novelly and E. Lamar Smith -- 13 Building on History, Sending Agents into the Future - -- Rangeland Modelling, Retrospect and Prospect -- TimothyJ.P. Lynam, Mark Stafford Smith and -- William J. Parton -- 14 Integrating Management of Land and Water Resources: -- the Social, Economic and Environmental Consequences -- of Tree Management in Rangelands -- Tom Hatton -- 15 Land and Water Management: Lessons from a Project on -- Desertification in the Middle East -- Scott Christiansen -- 16 International Perspectives on the Rangelands -- Wolfgang Bayer and Peter Sloane -- 17 Policies, Planning and Institutions for Sustainable Resource -- Use: a Participatory Approach -- Nick Abel, Mukii Gachugu, Art Langston, David -- Freudenberger, Mark Howden and Steve Marsden -- 18 Economics and Ecology: Working Together for Better Policy -- Nick Milham -- -- -- -- 19 Building the Future: Practical Challenges -- Joe Kotsokoane -- 20 Rangeland Livelihoods in the 21st Century -- Brian Walker -- 21 Building the Future: a Human Development Perspective -- C. Dean Freudenberger -- 22 Synthesis: New Visions and Prospects for Rangelands -- Kenneth C. Hodgkinson, Ronald B. Hacker and -- Anthony C. Grice
Summary This text contains new concepts and systems approaches of use for the management of rangeland resources by the people that live there and the institutions and organizations that support them
Notes Papers from the 6th International Rangeland Congress, held in Townsville, Australia, July 17, 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Subject Rangelands -- Congresses.
Range management -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Grice, A. C. (Anthony C.)
Hodgkinson, K. C. (Ken C.)
Center for International Forestry Research.
International Rangeland Congress (6th : 1999 : Townsville, Qld.)
LC no. 2001052635
ISBN 0851995233 alkaline paper