Meaningful learning for resilience-building among Mongolian pastoralists

Nomadic Peoples

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 53-77

  Baival, Batkhishig ^a   Fernández Giménez, María E ^b  

^a Nutag Action Research Institute Based   (Mongolia)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Herders; Mongolia; Resilience; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PASTORALISM; RANGELAND; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84875018182     PISSN: 08227942     EISSN: 17522366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/np.2012.160205     Document Type: Article

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