Global Rangelands: Progress and Prospects - Hardcover

Grice, Anthony; Hodgkinson, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851995233 ISBN 13: 9780851995236

Publisher: CABI Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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"As a state-of-the-art account of where rangeland science is at present, this is a useful source of information."--Bulletin of the British Ecological Society

Synopsis

Rangelands are those parts of the world where pastoral people graze native and domestic herbivores on native vegetation. Here the natural and fossil resources are utilized by other people for a host of purposes including fuels and minerals, water catchment, ecotourism and recreation, nature conservation and carbon sinks. More than half of the earth's land surface is rangeland. This book 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. These emerged from the VI International Rangeland Congress on "People and Rangelands: Building the Future" held in July 1999 in Townsville, Australia. It explores and analyzes all aspects of rangeland people and the resources they manage.

Edition details

• Publisher: CABI Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851995233
• ISBN 13: 9780851995236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320