Local perceptions of rangeland degradation and climate change in the pastoral society of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-19

  Wu, Xiaoyu ^a   Zhang, Xiangfeng ^a   Dong, Shikui ^a   Cai, Hong ^a   Zhao, Tianren ^a   Yang, Wenjun ^a   Jiang, Rong ^a   Shi, Yandan ^a   Shao, Junlin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; Indigenous knowledge; Participatory Rural Appraisal; rangeland management; socioeconomic transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923642969     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ14082     Document Type: Article

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