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Modern Pastoralism and Conservation - Old Problems, New Challenges (Paperback, New)
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Modern Pastoralism and Conservation - Old Problems, New Challenges (Paperback, New)
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TRADITION AND TRANSITION IN PASTORAL SOCIETIES Changing pastoral
dynamics make knowledge of pastoralism vital to understanding
landscapes, development and governance across dryland regions.
Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges
presents new pastoral research from Africa, the Middle East and
Asia. The volume (previously published in China) addresses the
nature and viability of pastoralism in practice and examines
current pastoral conditions in diverse locations. Pastoralists
engage with changing climatic and environmental conditions whilst
encountering policy, population and socio-economic challenges.
Issues of transformation and sustainability are at the heart of the
book, whose chapters highlight the contemporary practice of
pastoralism in order to enhance understanding of this unique
livelihood and lifestyle. The Commission on Nomadic Peoples (CNP),
part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological
Union Sciences (IUAES), unites researchers, practitioners,
government and non-government organisations to further pastoral
knowledge. As Commission members, the authors have had extensive
interactions with and possess rich experience of diverse pastoral
societies. This book's chapters originate in papers presented at
CNP sessions during the 2009 IUAES Congress in Kunming, China. Two
perspectives were stressed: pastoralism in an international context
and in the host nation, China. This approach identified both the
impact of rapid development on nomadic practices and livelihoods in
China and the country's growing integration into the global
pastoral research community. Modern Pastoralism and Conservation:
Old Problems, New Challenges builds an international perspective on
the wide- ranging approaches and challenges to traditional
pastoralism in the twenty-first century.
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