Research Catalog

Title

The World's savannas : economic driving forces, ecological constraints, and policy options for sustainable land use / edited by M.D. Young and O.T. Solbrig.

Publication

Paris : UNESCO ; Carnforth, Lancs, UK ; New York, USA : Parthenon Pub. Group, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Young, M. D. (Michael Denis), 1952-
• Solbrig, Otto Thomas

Description

xx, 350 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Man and the biosphere series ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Man and the biosphere series v. 12.

Subject

• Land use > Environmental aspects > Congresses
• Savannas > Congresses
• Conservation of natural resources > Congresses
• Land tenure > Congresses
• Sustainable agriculture > Congresses
• Land use > Government policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Output from an international workshop held at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi (Kenya) from 23-26 January 1991"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sect. I. Introduction -- 1. Economic and Ecological Driving Forces Affecting Tropical Savannas / O.T. Solbrig and M.D. Young -- Sect. 2. Policy Principles -- 2. Ecological Constraints to Savanna Land Use / O.T. Solbrig -- 3. Land Tenure for Pastoral Communities / I. Scoones, C. Toulmin and C. Lane -- 4. Land Tenure in Private and Mixed-Property Regimes / J.H. Holmes -- 5. National and International Influences That Drive Savanna Land Use / M.D. Young -- Sect. 3. Common-Property Grazing Systems -- 6. Barabaig Natural Resource Management / C. Lane and I. Scoones -- 7. Becoming Kenyans: Maasai Identity in a Changing Context / M. Kituyi -- Sect. 4. Dual Common-Property and Private-Property Grazing Systems -- 8. Savanna Land Use: Policy and Practice in Zimbabwe / M.W. Murphree and D.H.M. Cumming -- 9. Rangeland Bioeconomics in Revolutionary South Africa / M.T. Mentis and N. Seijas -- 10. Developing Botswana's Savannas / D.W. Pearce -- 11. Restoring the Productivity of Indian Savannas / M. Gadgil -- Sect. 5. Private-Property Grazing Systems -- 12. Land Use in Venezuela / J.F. Silva and A. Moreno -- 13. Ecological Impact of Agricultural Development in the Brazilian Cerrados / C.A. Klink, A.G. Moreira and O.T. Solbrig -- 14. Towards the Diversified Use of Australia's Savannas / J.H. Holmes and J.J. Mott -- Sect. 6. Overview -- 15. Providing an Environmentally Sustainable, Economically Profitable and Socially Equitable Future for the World's Savannas / M.D. Young and O.T. Solbrig.

ISBN

1850704171

LCCN

^^^92041899^

OCLC

• 27070800
• SCSB-10230509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library