Rangeland Policies for the Future
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Grazing districts |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Grazing districts |
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Author | : David D. Briske |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 661 |
Release | : 2017-04-12 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319467093 |
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third assesses several major challenges confronting global rangelands in the 21st century. This book will compliment applied range management textbooks by describing the conceptual foundation on which the rangeland profession is based. It has been written to be accessible to a broad audience, including ecosystem managers, educators, students and policy makers. The content is founded on the collective experience, knowledge and commitment of 80 authors who have worked in rangelands throughout the world. Their collective contributions indicate that a more comprehensive framework is necessary to address the complex challenges confronting global rangelands. Rangelands represent adaptive social-ecological systems, in which societal values, organizations and capacities are of equal importance to, and interact with, those of ecological processes. A more comprehensive framework for rangeland systems may enable management agencies, and educational, research and policy making organizations to more effectively assess complex problems and develop appropriate solutions.
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Grazing districts |
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Author | : Richard V. Pouyat |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030452166 |
This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, and explores directions that positively affect the future of forest and rangeland soil health. This book outlines soil processes and identifies the research needed to manage forest and rangeland soils in the United States. Chapters give an overview of the state of forest and rangeland soils research in the Nation, including multi-decadal programs (chapter 1), then summarizes various human-caused and natural impacts and their effects on soil carbon, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and biological diversity (chapters 2–5). Other chapters look at the effects of changing conditions on forest soils in wetland and urban settings (chapters 6–7). Impacts include: climate change, severe wildfires, invasive species, pests and diseases, pollution, and land use change. Chapter 8 considers approaches to maintaining or regaining forest and rangeland soil health in the face of these varied impacts. Mapping, monitoring, and data sharing are discussed in chapter 9 as ways to leverage scientific and human resources to address soil health at scales from the landscape to the individual parcel (monitoring networks, data sharing Web sites, and educational soils-centered programs are tabulated in appendix B). Chapter 10 highlights opportunities for deepening our understanding of soils and for sustaining long-term ecosystem health and appendix C summarizes research needs. Nine regional summaries (appendix A) offer a more detailed look at forest and rangeland soils in the United States and its Affiliates.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1994-02-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309048796 |
Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and management of rangelands have been matters for scientific inquiry and public debate since the 1880s, when reports of widespread range degradation and livestock losses led to the first attempts to inventory and classify rangelands. Scientists are now questioning the utility of current methods of rangeland classification and inventory, as well as the data available to determine whether rangelands are being degraded. These experts, who are using the same methods and data, have come to different conclusions. This book examines the scientific basis of methods used by federal agencies to inventory, classify, and monitor rangelands; it assesses the success of these methods; and it recommends improvements. The book's findings and recommendations are of interest to the public; scientists; ranchers; and local, state, and federal policymakers.
Author | : United States Department Of Agriculture |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780260445773 |
Excerpt from Rangeland Policies for the Future: Proceedings of a Symposium January 28-31, 1979, Tucson, Arizona Through the Symposium, people of many back grounds and interests were given an opportunity to listen, and to be heard. These proceedings bring together papers presented during the 2 days, except for several that were not available to the editors. Also presented are statements submitted by attendees and responses to questions submitted at the Symposium. Dialogue during discussion sessions at the conclusion of each panel session is not included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Robert Costanza |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 1992-07-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0231513240 |
Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of our world for sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. The previous isolation of these two fields has led to economic and environmental policies that have been mutually destructive rather than reinforcing in the long term. This book brings together these two disciplines in chapters covering the basic worldview of ecological economics; accounting, modeling, and analysis of ecological economicl systems; and necessary institutional changes and case studies.
Author | : Echi Christina Gabbert |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1805393782 |
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.
Author | : Kristie Maczko |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2022-05-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1000580970 |
This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions. It takes a fresh look at the information available on current and emerging issues across rangelands, and presents collaborative research for future progress. Authors offer a framework for evaluating rangeland sustainability, the best available data to use, as well as an interactive tool for use at a variety of geographical scales. Readers with limited knowledge of rangelands, as well as professional rangeland ecologists and land managers, will gain an understanding of the best tools available today to assess sustainability across rangeland ecosystems in the U.S.
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Developing Strategies for Rangeland Management |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 2056 |
Release | : 1984-10-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
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The findings and recommendations of the NAS committee in over eighty professional papers presented at workshops designed to assess various aspects of range management.