Small-scale co-management for the sustainable use of xilingol biosphere reserve, Inner Mongolia

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-29

  Bijoor, Neeta ^a   Li, WenJun ^b   Zhang, Qian ^b   Huang, Ganlin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; XILINGOL BIOSPHERE RESERVE;

EID: 33645226146     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-35.1.25     Document Type: Article

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27. Acknowledgments: we would like to thank Brown University for the Henry Luce Foundation funding the second author as Watson International Environmental Scholar that enabled her to initiate theoretically this research at Brown University in the first half year of 2002, and funding the first author as Luce Fellow that enabled her to conduct this research with other authors at Peking University in the next half year of 2002.
28. First submitted 7 March 2003. Accepted for publication 7 March 2005.