Research Catalog

Title

Global rangelands : progress and prospects / edited by A.C. Grice and K.C. Hodgkinson.

Publication

New York : CABI Pub., 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Grice, A. C. (Anthony C.)
• Hodgkinson, K. C. (Ken C.)
• International Rangeland Congress (6th : 1999 : Townsville, Qld.)

Description

xv, 299 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Rangelands > Congresses
• Range management > Congresses

Note

• Papers from the 6th International Rangeland Congress, held in Townsville, Australia, July 17, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Challenges for Rangeland People / Anthony C. Grice and Kenneth C. Hodgkinson -- 2. Future Shocks to People and Rangelands / S. Mark Howden, Barney Faran and Roy Behnke -- 3. Indigenous People in Rangelands / Graham Griffin -- 4. Rangelands: People, Perceptions and Perspectives / Denzil Mills, Roger Blench and Bertha Gillam / [et al.] -- 5. Desertification and Soil Processes in Rangelands / David Tongway and Walter Whitford -- 6. Understanding and Managing Rangeland Plant Communities / Steve Archer and Alison Bowman -- 7. Range Management and Plant Functional Types / Sandra Diaz, David D. Briske and Sue McIntyre -- 8. People and Plant Invasions of the Rangelands / Mark Lonsdale and Sue Milton -- 9. People and Rangeland Biodiversity / David M. J. S. Bowman -- 10. Managing Grazing / Mick Quirk -- 11. Rehabilitation of Mined Surfaces / Gerald E. Schuman and Edward F. Redente -- 12. Accounting for Rangeland Resources / Paul E. Novelly and E. Lamar Smith --
• 13. Building on History, Sending Agents into the Future - Rangeland Modelling, Retrospect and Prospect / Timothy J. P. Lynam, Mark Stafford Smith and William J. Parton -- 14. Integrating Management of Land and Water Resources: the Social, Economic and Environmental Consequences of Tree Management in Rangelands / Tom Hatton -- 15. Land and Water Management: Lessons from a Project on Desertification in the Middle East / Scott Christiansen -- 16. International Perspectives on the Rangelands / Wolfgang Bayer and Peter Sloane -- 17. Policies, Planning and Institutions for Sustainable Resource Use: a Participatory Approach / Nick Abel, Mukii Gachugu and Art Langston / [et al.] -- 18. Economics and Ecology: Working Together for Better Policy / Nick Milham -- 19. Building the Future: Practical Challenges / Joe Kotsokoane -- 20. Rangeland Livelihoods in the 21st Century / Brian Walker -- 21. Building the Future: a Human Development Perspective / C. Dean Freudenberger --
• 22. Synthesis: New Visions and Prospects for Rangelands / Kenneth C. Hodgkinson, Ronald B. Hacker and Anthony C. Grice.

ISBN

0851995233 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001052635

OCLC

• ocm48221419
• SCSB-4207072

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries