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Fragmentation in Semi-Arid and Arid Landscapes

Consequences for Human and Natural Systems

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Kathleen A. Galvin

    1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

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  2. Robin S. Reid

    1. International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

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  3. Roy H. Behnke Jr

    1. Macaulay Institute, AB15 8QH, UK

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  4. N. Thompson Hobbs

    1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

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  • First book to show how fragmentation of natural systems influences human welfare, economies
  • Unique in global coverage, integration of social, natural sciences of fragmentation in rangelands
  • Complex systems are self sustaining, whereas simplified ones often want capital inputs, subsidies
  • Shows linkage of multiple scale analyses
  • Rangeland use exclusivity does not promote human welfare or sustain natural processes

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction and Framework

    1. Global Significance of Extensive Grazing Lands and Pastoral Societies: An Introduction

      • Robin S. Reid, Kathleen A. Galvin, Russell S. Kruska
      Pages 1-24

    2. Fragmentation of Arid and Semi-Arid Ecosystems: Implications for People and Animals

      • N. Thompson Hobbs, Robin S. Reid, Kathleen A. Galvin, James E. Ellis
      Pages 25-44

    3. Causes and Consequences of Herbivore Movement in Landscape Ecosystems

      • Michael B. Coughenour
      Pages 45-91

  3. Case Studies

    1. Australia

      1. Changing Patterns of Land Use and Tenure in the Dalrymple Shire, Australia
        • Chris J. Stokes, Ryan R. J. McAllister, Andrew J. Ash, John E. Gross
        Pages 93-112

    2. North America

      1. From Fragmentation to Reaggregation of Rangelands in the Northern Great Plains, USA
        • Jill M. Lackett, Kathleen A. Galvin
        Pages 113-134
      2. Land Use, Fragmentation, and Impacts on Wildlife in Jackson Valley, Wyoming, USA
        • Jill M. Lackett, N. Thompson Hobbs
        Pages 135-150

    3. Asia

      1. Ideology, Land Tenure and Livestock Mobility in Kazakhstan
        • Iliya I. Alimaev, Roy H. Behnke Jr
        Pages 151-178
      2. Policy Changes in Mongolia: Implications for Land Use and Landscapes
        • Dennis Ojima, Togtohyn Chuluun
        Pages 179-193

    4. Africa

      1. Fragmentation of a Peri-Urban Savanna, Athi-Kaputiei Plains, Kenya
        • Robin S. Reid, Helen Gichohi, Mohammed Y. Said, David Nkedianye, Joseph O. Ogutu, Mrigesh Kshatriya et al.
        Pages 195-224
      2. Processes of Fragmentation in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Southern Kajiado District, Kenya
        • Shauna B. BurnSilver, Jeffrey Worden, Randall B. Boone
        Pages 225-253
      3. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: Fragmentation of a Unique Region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
        • Kathleen A. Galvin, Philip K. Thornton, Randall B. Boone, Linda M. Knapp
        Pages 255-279
      4. North-West Province, South Africa: Communal and Commercial Livestock Systems in Transition
        • Kathleen A. Galvin, Philip K. Thornton, Randall B. Boone, Linda M. Knapp
        Pages 281-304

  4. Issues Of Fragmentation And Complexity: A Synthetic Perspective

    1. The Drivers of Fragmentation in Arid and Semi-Arid Landscapes

      • Roy H. Behnke Jr
      Pages 305-340

    2. Comparing Landscape and Infrastructural Heterogeneity within and between Ecosystems

      • Randall B. Boone, Shauna B. BurnSilver, Russell S. Kruska
      Pages 341-367

    3. Responses of Pastoralists to Land Fragmentation: Social Capital, Connectivity and Resilience

      • Kathleen A. Galvin
      Pages 369-389

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 391-411
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About this book

Casual readers of the title of this book might be forgiven for thinking that it is a little esoteric, far-removed from the pressing day-to-day concerns of humans and wildlife in the drylands of the world. But they could not be more wrong. It addresses an issue of the utmost practical importance in the world today, yet does so on the basis of exciting new theory about how the world operates. Of the billion or so human beings who now live in the world’s arid and semi-arid lands, a majority depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. These natural resources include livestock and their forage, as well as the wild biota that creates opportunities for tourism or subsistence harvesting. Arid and semi-arid lands are spread over a third of the world’s land surface, from Colorado to the Kalahari, the Sahel to the Simpson, the Altai Steppe to Amboseli. Notwithstanding their diversity, these lands are broadly cha- cterised by low productivity, management at large scales, and great climate variability – in short, by high spatial and temporal heterogeneity. This book is about the implications of that high spatial and temporal heterogeneity for life, management and policy in arid and semi-arid lands.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Kathleen A. Galvin, N. Thompson Hobbs

  • International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

    Robin S. Reid

  • Macaulay Institute, AB15 8QH, UK

    Roy H. Behnke Jr

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