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The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention independent of climate change. The latter includes the expansion of private, civil and
N. Tyler +3 more
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Herds of the tundra by Robert Paine
Rangifer, 1998 1994. Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Reindeer Pastoralism. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 242 pp. Robert Paine's most important contribution to the study of reindeer husbandry (pastoralism).
Dag T. Elgvin
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Computational Research on Mobile Pastoralism Using Agent-Based Modeling and Satellite Imagery. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Dryland pastoralism has long attracted considerable attention from researchers in diverse fields. However, rigorous formal study is made difficult by the high level of mobility of pastoralists as well as by the sizable spatio-temporal variability of ...
Takuto Sakamoto
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2005 Following Khazanov, I propose that pastoralism is a type of society that has high mobility and a periodic relationship with the «outside world». Pastoralism is an alternative to the agricultural, sedentary and urbanized societies.
Ximena Medinaceli
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HIMALAYA, 2023 In this essay we focus on what appears to be an evolving transition among Gaddi and other pastoralist communities in Himachal Pradesh, India. Contrary to predictions of the demise of pastoralism, we argue that while there is evidence of sedentarisation ...
Aniruddh Sheth, Vasant Saberwal
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‘Socio-economic and livelihood impacts of environmentally supportive bio-enterprise development for the agro-/pastoral communities in Samburu Heartland, Kenya’. [PDF]
, 2012 The question of agro/pastoral livelihoods adaptation is gaining attention in the rural development arena but little empirical evidence exists that has examined the performance and impact of diversified enterprises on agro/pastoral livelihoods and the ...
Wren, Susan Alison
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Pastoralism, 2021 As the “new rangeland paradigm” took shape in the 1990s, climatic variability in pastoral ecosystems was often discussed as “uncertainty”, and the essential mobility of pastoral systems was argued to be possible only with flexible land access rights ...
Kramer Gillin
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The value of pastoralism in Kenya: Application of total economic value approach
Pastoralism, 2019 The value of pastoralism practiced in Kenya is not well appreciated, even though it is said to be enormous. The available statistics tend to underestimate this value from the point of view of its contribution to the local and national economies, due to ...
D. Nyariki, D. Amwata
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Transhumant Pastoralism in the Context of Socioeconomic and Climate Change in the Mountains of Nepal
Mountain Research and Development, 2016 This research explored how transhumant pastoralism has been sustained and promoted in the context of socioeconomic and climate change in the mountain regions of Nepal.
Popular Gentle, Rik Thwaites
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Evaluating the potential for the environmentally sustainable control of foot and mouth disease in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Strategies to control transboundary diseases have in the past generated unintended negative consequences for both the environment and local human populations.
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