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Description: |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Introduction: A review of rangeland conservation issues in an uncertain future / Monica L. Wrobel, Kent H. Redford -- Riding the rangelands piggyback: a resilience approach to conservation management / Brian Walker -- Addressing the mismatches between livestock production and wildlife conservation across spatio-temporal scales and institutional levels / Johan T. du Toit -- Rangeland conservation and shrub encroachment: new perspectives on an old problem / Steven R. Archer -- Health and disease in wild rangelands / Richard Kock [and others] -- Contemporary views of human-carnivore conflicts on wild rangelands / Alexandra Zimmermann [and others] -- Financial incentives for rangeland conservation: addressing the "show-us-the-money" challenge / Ray Victurine, Charles Curtin -- Biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical rangelands / Stephen T. Garnett [and others] -- Livestock grazing and wildlife conservation in the American West: historical, policy and conservation biology perspectives / Thomas L. Fleischner. |
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Contents: Guanaco management in Patagonian rangelands: a conservation opportunity on the brink of collapse / Ricardo Baldi [and others] -- Multiple use of Trans-Himalayan rangelands: reconciling human livelihoods with wildlife conservation / Charudutt Mishra [and others] -- Herders and hunters in a transitional economy: the challenge of wildlife and rangeland management in post-socialist Mongolia / Katie M. Scharf [and others] -- Social and economic challenges for conservation in east African rangelands: land use, livelihoods and wildlife change in Maasailand / Katherine Homewood, D. Michael Thompson -- The future for wildlife on Kenya's rangelands: an economic perspective / Michael Norton-Griffiths, Mohammed Y. Said -- Synthesis: Local and global solutions to the challenge of keeping rangelands wild / James C. Deutsch. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of the world's livestock, while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use, over-hunting, and subsistence and commercial farming of livestock and crops. Leading experts have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of rangeland management today. This book provides practitioners. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Print version: Wild rangelands. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ISBN 9781405177856 ISBN 1405177853 (DLC) 2009038740 (OCoLC)230193904 |