Enhancing the resilience of coupled human and natural systems of alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Shikui Dong A B and Ruth Sherman B
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A State Key Laboratory of Water Environmental Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
B Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3001, USA.
The Rangeland Journal 37(1) i-iii https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ14117
Submitted: 3 October 2014 Accepted: 17 November 2014 Published: 10 February 2015
Abstract
This special issue covers a wide range of topics on the protection and sustainable management of alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), including Indigenous knowledge of sustainable rangeland management, science-policy interface for alpine rangeland biodiversity conservation, adaptations of local people to social and environmental changes and policy design for managing coupled human-natural systems of alpine rangelands.
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