Global rangelands: progress and prospects. VI International Rangeland Congress on 'People and Rangelands: Building the Future', Townsville, Australia, 1999
Global rangelands: progress and prospects. VI International Rangeland Congress on 'People and Rangelands: Building the Future', Townsville, Australia, 1999 [electronic resource]
Edited by A. C. Grice, K. C. Hodgkinson.
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- Wallingford UK CABI Publishing 2002
- 299pp.;
- CABI Books .
- CABI Books .
Although traditionally defined as areas where natural vegetation is exploited for grazing by domestic and native herbivores, rangelands are used by many different people, for a host of purposes. As well as livestock products, rangelands provide fuels, minerals and water and are used for ecotourism, recreation, nature conservation and as carbon sinks. More than half of the earth's land surface is rangeland and millions of people, both within and outside the rangelands, depend on them. This book addresses the important issues confronting the rangelands and presents new concepts and approaches for the management of rangeland resources. It is relevant to the people who live in or depend on the rangelands, and to the institutions and organisations that support them.
9780851997537
10.1079/9780851995236.0000 doi
environmental policy desertification opinions range pastures biodiversity plant communities sustainability land resources water resources community involvement rangelands range management
Although traditionally defined as areas where natural vegetation is exploited for grazing by domestic and native herbivores, rangelands are used by many different people, for a host of purposes. As well as livestock products, rangelands provide fuels, minerals and water and are used for ecotourism, recreation, nature conservation and as carbon sinks. More than half of the earth's land surface is rangeland and millions of people, both within and outside the rangelands, depend on them. This book addresses the important issues confronting the rangelands and presents new concepts and approaches for the management of rangeland resources. It is relevant to the people who live in or depend on the rangelands, and to the institutions and organisations that support them.
9780851997537
10.1079/9780851995236.0000 doi
environmental policy desertification opinions range pastures biodiversity plant communities sustainability land resources water resources community involvement rangelands range management