Social and ecological constraints on decision making by transhumant pastoralists: A case study from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-321

  Akasbi, Zakia ^a,b   Oldeland, Jens ^a   Dengler, Jürgen ^a   Finckh, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VÉTÉRINAIRE HASSAN II   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Ait Mgoun; Ait Toumert; Ait Zekri; ARGOS; Goat grazing; High Atlas; Jebel Saghro; Migration pattern; Rangeland; Small ruminant; Transhumance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861672228     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-009-2320-8     Document Type: Article

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