Multiple use of Trans-Himalayan Rangelands: Reconciling Human Livelihoods with Wildlife Conservation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 291-311

  Mishra, Charudutt ^a   Bagchi, Sumanta ^a,b   Namgail, Tsewang ^a,c   Bhatnagar, Yash Veer ^a  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation management in Trans Himalayan rangelands; Human wildlife conflicts and flexible and community based management; Livestock grazing intensity and buffer or multiple use landscape unit; Livestock species diversity and herding practices; Pastoralism in Trans Himalaya; Project Snow Leopard Trans Himalayan rangeland conservation; Reconciling human livelihoods with wildlife conservation; Trans Himalayan mountain ungulates; Trans Himalayan rangeland multiple use; Trans Himalayan rangeland wildlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948979401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317091.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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