Pastoralist societies face more threats to their way of life now than at any previous time.
Population growth; loss of herding lands to private farms, ranches, game parks, and urban …

" Sustainable development" currently has a firm grip on the lexicon of development agencies
from the World Bank to small nongovernmental organizations, but it offers little practical …

This article discusses the implementation of development policies in pastoral areas of the
Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) since the reforms of the 1980s. It analyses why certain …

Since the privatization of livestock in 1992, rates of absentee ownership of livestock have
increased sharply in Mongolia. Unlike other documented instances of absentee herding in …

Mongolian pastoralists differ from many pastoral peoples in their political, cultural and
economic roles within their state. Pastoralists constitute 20–30 per cent of the total …

The socioeconomics and the ecological impact of nomadic pastoralism were analyzed using
interviews with 87 herder families and secondary information in the western Khangai …

Post-socialist states have increasingly adopted rural governance and resource management
policies framed around the concepts of decentralization, devolution, and de-concentration in …

Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die pastorale Ökonomie und Gesellschaft bei den Kasachen in
der Westmongolei und deren Veränderung im Verlauf der Transformation von einer …

Pastoralism in Mongolia has increasingly been portrayed by two powerful and mutually
reinforcing discourses. First, the neo-liberal discourse enthusiastically embraced and …

Policies governing access to the forage resource of livestock in arid rangelands have been a
topic of intense debate globally. Institutional design is highly political in Mongolia where …