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Wild Rangelands: Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Dec 2009, Pages: 448
Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of the world’s livestock, while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use, over-hunting, and subsistence and commercial farming of livestock and crops. Leading experts have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of rangeland management today. This is provides practitioners and students of rangeland management and wildland conservation with a diversity of perspectives on a central question: can rangelands be wildlands?
- The first book to examine rangelands from a conservation perspective
- Emphasizes the balance between the needs of people and livestock, and wildlife
- Written by an international team of experts covering all geographical regions
Examines ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of rangeland management and wildland conservation, providing a diversity of perspectives not seen before in a single volume
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