Measuring the impacts of community-based Grasslands management in Mongolia's Gobi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Leisher, Craig ^a   Hess, Sebastiaan ^b   Boucher, Timothy M ^a   van Beukering, Pieter ^c   Sanjayan, M ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b Hess Environmental Economic Analyst   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRASSLAND; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; MONGOLIA; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIVESTOCK; METHODOLOGY; POACEAE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; LIVESTOCK; MONGOLIA; POACEAE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84856501024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030991     Document Type: Article

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