Restoring Community Connections to the Land Building Resilience through Community-based Rangeland Management in China and Mongolia Edited by M E. Fernández-Giménez, Colorado State University, USA, X Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC, B Baival, and J Klein, Colorado State University, USA, R Reid , Colorado State University, USA HB: 978 1 84593 894 9 / PB: 978 1 84593 895 6 November 2011 / 260 pages / Hardback and Paperback / 244x172 mm

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The rangelands of China and Mongolia encompass diverse landscapes of global environmental and cultural significance.
Pastoralists in these two nations share much common history and tradition, including their nomadic heritage and twin eras
of collectivized production under different centrally planned socialist regimes. This unique collection of case studies
describes the change, loss, re-emergence and resilience of seven herder communities located in distinct socio-ecological
settings ranging from the Gobi desert of Mongolia to the Tibetan Plateau regions of China's Sichuan and Gansu
Provinces. Useful for policy makers within international development and conservation policy, this book is also of interest
for researchers and students of rural economics and agriculture.