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Rangelands Along the Silk Road - Transformative Adaptation Under Climate & Global Change (Hardcover)
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Rangelands Along the Silk Road - Transformative Adaptation Under Climate & Global Change (Hardcover)
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This multi-author book by experts in Central Asia draws together
the key issues that confront the peoples of these lands as the New
Silk Road takes shape. The Editors provide an overview of
information and background about rangelands, grasslands and
pasturelands in nine Silk Road countries as well as their
productivity and ecological function. The authors discuss the
status, future prospects and strategies to achieve sustainable
management of rangelands and grasslands in the context of the
infrastructure developments and other New Silk Road building
activities in Central Asia. They identify problems and hazards
associated with global change, including climate change in Silk
Road countries. This book will act as a vehicle to promote
knowledge useful for managing rangelands, grasslands and pasture
lands along the Silk Road, from Mongolia in the East to Iran in the
West. No region of the world has such vast and largely undeveloped
areas of land that is so strategically placed between Europe to the
west, Asia to the east, and Russia acting as huge presence to the
north. For ages, these vast lands have been the conduit through
which trade, commerce, learning and religious beliefs have spread.
For millennia, the resource base (rivers, lakes, and various types
of land including vast steppes, grasslands and other forms of
rangelands) have supported lives and livelihoods of millions of
people, as goods and ideas flowed in both directions along the vast
network of trade routes that came to be known as the Silk Road. In
the past, there have been many challenges, not the least of which
was the issue of distance (over 6000 km. from China to the eastern
edge Europe). In modern times, there has been a renewed interest in
these vast lands that contain the worlds highest mountains, some of
the driest deserts and provide sustenance for millions of people
and their livestock as well as an irreplaceable wealth of plant and
animal diversity. Accelerated economic activity, which is mainly
infrastructure development (pipelines, highways, railways), is both
a threat and an opportunity especially when set against a
background of global change, including climatic shifts that
threaten water supplies and livelihoods on a scale never before
experienced. The focus of the authors' is on the extensive
rangelands and grasslands, as well as the peoples whose livelihoods
depend on the development of sustainable land management. In
particular, they analyse and provide commentary of the
transformative adaptations that are required if the Silk Road and
its inhabitants are to survive into the twenty-second century and
beyond.
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