Rangeland restoration in southern Africa faces complex challenges that require the
involvement of diverse social groups to ensure both ecological and social sustainability. This …

Different strategies to govern resource commons generate outcomes that can be assessed
along different dimensions, in terms of the ecological or social sustainability of the resource …

This paper examines the soil loss spatial patterns in the Keiskamma catchment using the
GIS-based Sediment Assessment Tool for Effective Erosion Control (SATEEC) to assess the …

Although the Anthropocene has heralded unprecedented recognition of, and concern about
the consequences of landscape degradation to humans, pathways to effective long-term …

This paper discusses the emergent properties of deagrarianisation processes in two villages
in the central Eastern Cape, South Africa. The claim of is that much of the deagrarianisation …

Policy affecting the rangeland commons in South Africa has been based largely on
management models developed for large-scale commercial farming. This paper examines …

Transdisciplinarity is gaining acceptance in sustainability science research as an approach
to work across disparate types of knowledge and practices in order to tackle complex social …

Communal rangelands are a global resource of significant benefit to society through the
provision of critical ecosystem goods and services such as carbon sequestration, water and …

Animal welfare and its influence on beef production are major considerations in many
developed countries. In the developing world, where food insecurity and poverty are …

The central questions of this book are, first, whether medieval rights of common pasture–
exercised over large and small areas across England, each carefully defined, and some still …