Pastoral practices in transition: Animal husbandry in high asian contexts

Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research

Volumn , Issue 9789400738454, 2012, Pages 1-29

  Kreutzmann, Hermann ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Hindukush Karakoram Himalaya; Modernisation; Pamir; Pastoral adaptation strategies; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031764859     PISSN: 18797180     EISSN: 18797199     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3846-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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