| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 350 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
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Advances in Asian human-environmental research, 1879-7180 |
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Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
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| Contents |
Pastoral Practices in Transition: Animal Husbandry in High Asian Contexts / Hermann Kreutzmann -- Herding on High Grounds: Diversity and Typology of Pastoral Systems in the Eastern Hindukush (Chitral, Northwest Pakistan) / Marcus Nüsser, Arnd Holdschlag and Fazlur-Rahman -- Pastoralism, Power and Politics: Access to Pastures in Northern Afghanistan / Stefan Schütte -- Pastoral Production Strategies and Market Orientation of the Afghan Kirghiz / Ted Callahan -- Livelihoods of the 'New Livestock Breeders' in the Eastern Pamirs of Tajikistan / Tobias Kraudzun -- Kirghiz in Little Kara Köl: The Forces of Modernisation in Southern Xinjiang / Hermann Kreutzmann -- Legal Arrangements and Pasture-Related Socio-ecological Challenges in Kyrgyzstan / Andrei Dörre -- Conflicting Strategies for Contested Resources: Pastoralists' Responses to Uncertainty in Post-socialist Rural Kyrgyzstan / Bernd Steimann -- Pastoral People and Shepherding Practices in the Western Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh): A Historical Perspective / Chetan Singh -- State Policy and Local Performance: Pasture Use and Pastoral Practices in the Kumaon Himalaya / Christoph Bergmann, Martin Gerwin, Marcus Nüsser and William S. Sax -- The Changing Role of Hunting and Wildlife in Pastoral Communities of Northern Tibet / Toni Huber -- Implementation of Resettlement Programmes Amongst Pastoralist Communities in Eastern Tibet / Jarmila Ptackova -- 'Everybody Likes Houses. Even Birds Are Coming!' / Housing Tibetan Pastoralists in Golok: Policies and Everyday Realities / Emilia Róża Sułek -- Change and Continuity in a Nomadic Pastoralism Community in the Tibet Autonomous Region, 1959-2009 / Melvyn C. Goldstein -- Tibetan Pastoralists in Transition. Political Change and State Interventions in Nomad Societies / Andreas Gruschke -- Enclosure and Resettlement in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Dilemma of Pastoral Development During the Last Three Decades / Wu Ning, Yan Zhaoli and Lu Tao -- Pastoral Communities' Perspectives on Climate Change and Their Adaptation Strategies in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya / Yi Shaoliang, Muhammad Ismail and Yan Zhaoli -- Pastoralism: A Way Forward or Back? / Hermann Kreutzmann |
| Summary |
In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and processing concepts. New insights into other aspects of pastoralism such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization theory-led development activities can be observed. Higher inputs from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of 'modern' pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernization programme¡incorporates resettlement and transformation of lifestyles as to be justified by environmental pressure in order to reduce degradation in the age of climate change |
| Analysis |
Geography |
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Agriculture |
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Environmental management |
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Earth Sciences |
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landbouw |
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milieubeheer |
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aardwetenschappen |
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aardsysteemkunde |
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earth system science |
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Geology (General) |
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Geologie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pastoral systems -- Asia
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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Pastoral systems
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kreutzmann, Hermann.
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| ISBN |
9789400738461 |
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9400738463 |
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9400738455 |
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9789400738454 |
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