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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Print version record |
Subject |
Rangelands -- Congresses.
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Range management -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Grice, A. C. (Anthony C.)
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Hodgkinson, K. C. (Ken C.)
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Center for International Forestry Research.
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International Rangeland Congress (6th : 1999 : Townsville, Qld.)
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LC no. |
2001052635 |
ISBN |
0851995233 alkaline paper |
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