Rangeland dynamics in South Omo Zone of Southern Ethiopia: Assessment of rangeland condition in relation to altitude and Grazing types [PDF]
A study was undertaken in Hamer and Benna-Tsemay districts of the Southern Ethiopia with the objective to determine the condition of the rangelands for grazing animals as influenced by altitude and grazing types.
Ebro, A., Terefe, A., Tessema, Z.K.
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Tibetan Plateau Grassland Protection: Tibetan Herders\u27 Ecological Conception Versus State Policies [PDF]
, 2011 The establishment of the “Three Rivers’ Sources Nature Reserve” in 2002 - one of China’s largest ecological protection projects - has had a major impact on the lives of Tibetan nomadic herders.
Cencetti, Elisa
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Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management – The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions [PDF]
We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands of ...
Martin F. Quaas +2 more
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Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2016 Rangeland degradation remains a serious impediment to improve pastoral livelihoods in the lowlands of Ethiopia. This review paper presents an overview of the extent of rangeland degradation, explores its drivers, discusses the potential impacts of ...
Mohammed Mussa Abdulahi +2 more
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A DYNAMIC AND STOCHASTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE ROLE OF TIME IN RANGE MANAGEMENT [PDF]
This chapter uses a new ecological-economic approach to analyze the role of time in range management in a dynamic and stochastic setting. We first construct a theoretical model of a parcel of rangeland in which time restrictions are used to manage the ...
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. +2 more
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A Framework to Assess Returns on Investments in the Dryland Systems of Northern Kenya [PDF]
, 2015 Governments need quantitative assessments of the outcomes of proposed investments so they can weigh the merits of each option. Without these, there is a risk that some proposed changes could in fact reduce rather than increase benefits to the economy and
Caroline King-Okumu
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OPTIMAL STOCKING OF RANGELAND FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION WITHIN A DYNAMIC FRAMEWORK [PDF]
A dynamic model is constructed and utilized to illustrate the interactions of several primary dynamic ecologic and economic relationships that are important in effective rangeland management.
McBryde, Gary L., Pope, C. Arden, III
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Relating Fire Occurrence to Weather Conditions on the Great Basin Rangelands [PDF]
Journal of Range Management, 1980 Results are presented to demonstrate the association between weather conditions and fire danger on the rangelands of the Great Basin. It was found that precipitation frequency and duration are physically related to fire occurrence in a complex manner. A climatic relationship also exists between monthly temperature and the corresponding total number of ...
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Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin [PDF]
In this article, a numerical stochastic dynamic programming model (SDP) is developed to characterize the decision problem of a rancher operating on rangelands in northern Nevada that are affected by invasive annual grasses and wildfire.
Harris, Thomas R. +2 more
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Estimating Grazing Land Acres Across the Contiguous United States Using Machine Learning Methods
Remote SensingQuantifying the extent of rangeland and pastureland (collectively termed grazing lands herein) in the US is a critical first step in many grazing lands assessments. This research presents a model-assisted framework to estimate grazing land acreage within
Mingyue Hu +4 more
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