Addressing the Mismatches between Livestock Production and Wildlife Conservation across Spatio-Temporal Scales and Institutional Levels

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 30-52

  Du Toit, Johan T ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandipur National Park 'subsistence' pastoralists; Conservation intervention perceived problems and threat; Ecological resilience restoration; Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs); Integrated livestock production and ecosystem conservation; Interventions at multiple spatio temporal scales and institutional levels; Kruger National Park and integrated catchment management; Livestock and wildlife management mismatches; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and cross scale interactions; Serengeti Mara Ecosystem (SME)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948977083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317091.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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