Herders and Hunters in a Transitional Economy: The Challenge of Wildlife and Rangeland Management in Post-socialist Mongolia

Wild Rangelands: Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 312-339

  Scharf, Katie M ^a   Fernández giménez, María E ^b   Batbuyan, Batjav ^c   Enkhbold, Sumiya ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^c Mongolian NGO Center for Nomadic Pastoralism Studies   (Mongolia)

^d SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community based natural resource management; Conservationists' and development experts' and grassroots participation; Herders as hunters pastoralism and wildlife trade link; Hunting strategy and success and wealth of herders; Mongolia's Eastern Steppe and herding households; Mongolian pastoralism and biodiversity; Mongolian politics and natural resource management; Post socialist Mongolia wildlife and rangeland management; Rangeland ecology changes and human consequences; Transitional economy wildlife and livestock and human coexistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856004609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317091.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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