Rangeland degradation and recovery in China's pastoral lands
By: edited by Victor Squires ... [et al.].
Contributors: Squires, V. R. 1937-
Publisher: CABI North American Office
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845934965
Subjects: Land degradation -- China; Rangelands -- Revegetation -- Case studies; Range management -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The context for the study of rangeland degradation and recovery in china's pastoral lands / Victor Squires and Zhang Kebin; title: Historical degradation episodes in china: socio-economic forces and their interaction with rangeland grazing systems since the 1950s / Victor Squires and Yang Youlin; title: An analysis of the effects of climate variability in northern china over the past five decades on people, livestock, and plants in the focus areas / Lu Qi, Wang Xuequan and Wu Bo; title: Mechanisms of degradation in grazed rangelands / Li Xiangli; title: The mechanisms of soil erosion processes by wind and water in chinese rangelands / Zhou ZhiYu and Bin Ma; title: Processes in rangeland degradation, rehabilitation and recovery / Victor Squires; title: (Case study 1) Hulunbuir grassland, Inner Mongolia / Lu Xinshi; title: (Case study 2) Horqin sandy land, Inner Mongolia / Jiang Deming ... [et al.]; title: (Case study 3) Xilingole grassland, Inner Mongolia / Jianhui Huang, Yongfei Bai, and Ye Jiang; title: (Case study 4) Ordos plateau, Inner Mongolia / Zheng Yun Run and Li Qiushuang; title: (Case study 5) Hexi corridor, Gansu / Yuhong Li and Victor Squires; title: (Case study 6) Alashan plateau, Inner Mongolia / Li Qinfeng; title: (Casestudy 7) Qinghai-Tibet plateau rangelands / Long Ruijun ... [et al.]; title: (Case study 8) Northern Xinjiang / Jin Gui-li and Zhu Jin-zhong; title: Land tenure arrangements, property rights and institutional arrangements in the cycles of rangeland degradation and recovery / Adrian Williams, Mei Ping and Zheng Dalai; title: Monitoring and evaluation as tools for rangeland management / Aiyun Liu; title: How can the next degradation episode be prevented? / Victor R. Squires and Yang Youlin.