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- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa's moist grassland harbours globally significant biodiversity, supplies essential ecosystem services, supports crop and livestock agriculture, forestry and settlement, yet is poorly…Publication Date 2009
- agriculture
- animals
- biodiversity
- birds
- climate
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- crops
- Agricultural/growth & development
- ecosystem
- environment
- forestry
- insects
- mammals
- Poaceae
- Soil/analysis
- grasslands
- land use
- conservation
- management
- landscape ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, we asked the Ariaal herders of northern Kenya to answer 'why, what and how' they classified landscape, and assessed and monitored the biodiversity of 10 km2 of grazing land.…Publication Date 2009
- Anthropogenic indicators
- Ariaal
- biodiversity
- Indigenous knowledge
- Grazing suitability
- landscape classification
- Landscape potential
- traditional knowledge
- pastoralism
- monitoring
- grazing
- grasslands
- land use
- Soil Condition
- livestock
- conservation
- management
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores Swaziland's National Action Programme (NAP) to combat desertification; the country's main strategy for implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat…Publication Date 2009
- land degradation
- policy
- Poverty
- Orthodoxy
- Myth
- desertification
- policies
- management
- degradation
- land use
- Africa
- Swaziland
- Library Collection RecordCentral governments have neither the capacity nor the local knowledge to implement a just, large-scale national land registration system. Support to local institutions to undertake intermediate forms…Publication Date 2009
- land
- Property
- institutions
- investment
- management
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- land reform
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOn rangelands, uneven or unmanaged livestock distribution can adversely affect plant community composition, riparian function, or displace wildlife. These issues have historic precedents and are…Publication Date 2009
- range management
- grazing behaviour
- forage selection
- standing crop
- management
- grasslands
- plant production
- forage quality
- cattle
- grazing
- Burns
- Oregon
- USA
- Library Collection RecordUrban and peri-urban agriculture is becoming increasingly important as a source of income and food for the urban population in South Africa. This study was prompted by concerns of city authorities…Publication Date 2009
- Horticulture
- soil compaction
- Soil management effects
- Urban agriculture
- water content
- agriculture
- soils
- tillage
- soil moisture
- land use
- North West Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPost-1994 land reform policies have had limited effects on land use in the communities surrounding Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserves in South Africa's Transkei region. Likewise, prior state…Publication Date 2009
- land tenure
- protected areas
- villagization
- forests
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- land use
- subsistence agriculture
- legislation
- management
- stakeholders
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordDifferences in land-use management may result in different rangeland condition (soil, vegetation and biodiversity) and productivity. Vegetation condition in contrasting land-use management systems is…Publication Date 2009
- Chemical Properties
- enzyme activity
- land-use management
- microbial biomass
- rangeland degradation
- soil degradation
- rangelands
- management
- land use
- rangeland condition
- communal farming
- Commercial farming
- game farming
- North West Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record1-Jul-09Publication Date 2009
- forage
- grazing
- range management
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- crops
- forests
- pastures
- vegetation
- Soil sciences
- soil management
- land use
- natural resources
- environment
- Nature conservation
- soil chemicophysical properties
- fertilizer application
- soil biology
- education
- tillage
- vegetation
- education
- Library Collection Record18 Congreso Congreso Venezolano de la Ciencia del Suelo. Contenido, Cabrera de Bisbal, E.Parra, R.M..- Maracay (Venezuela): SVCS, 2009. Congreso Venezolano de la Ciencia del Suelo, 18., Santa Bá…Publication Date 2009
- crops
- forests
- pastures
- vegetation
- genetic soil types
- Geomorphology
- land use
- climatic factors
- watersheds
- water erosion
- environmental impact
- research projects
- vegetation
- Library Collection Record18 Congreso Congreso Venezolano de la Ciencia del Suelo. Contenido, Cabrera de Bisbal, E.Parra, R.M..- Maracay (Venezuela): SVCS, 2009. Congreso Venezolano de la Ciencia del Suelo, 18., Santa Bá…Publication Date 2009
- Sorghum bicolor
- crops
- forests
- pastures
- vegetation
- land use
- land classification
- climatic factors
- water erosion
- soil conservation
- Sorghum bicolor
- vegetation
- Sorghum bicolor
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- reindeer
- livestock management
- herds
- history
- predation
- losses
- economic analysis
- Animal ecology
- Climatic change
- habitats
- environmental impact
- infrastructure
- pastures
- Land consolidation
- land management
- land use
- Ethnic groups
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- watersheds
- land use
- rivers
- nitrates
- nitrogen
- highlands
- farmland
- grasslands
- Forest Land
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- alpine grasslands
- nutrients
- land use
- habitats
- botanical composition
- population dynamics
- surveys
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Mongolia
- Land Policies
- Tenure
- land transfers
- land ownership
- land management
- land use
- grasslands
- Constraints
- urbanization
- Villages
- pastoral society
- nomadism
- Indigenous knowledge
- history
- land resources
- Industrialization
- environmental impact
- resource management
- regional planning
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- dairy cows
- milk production
- land use
- pastures
- meadows
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- cattle
- transhumance
- livestock management
- herds
- pastoralism
- pastoral society
- nomadism
- Ethnic groups
- social change
- history
- Germany
- land use
- land management
- grazing lands
- Namibia
- Library Collection RecordPinus sylvestris L. and Pinus mugo Turra originating from two plantations established during the 1960s are invading subalpine heathlands higher than 1 500 m above sea level in Montseny Natural Park (…Publication Date 2008-03-01
- Abies
- colonization
- land use
- Mediterranean mountains
- Pinus
- plantation
- Library Collection RecordThis report contains quantitative and qualitative information on natrural resource conditions within the watershed. This information has been used to develop a watershed profile and to determine the…Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cumulative watershed effects
- grazing
- land use
- soil erosion
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report contains quantitative and qualitative information on natrural resource conditions within the watershed. This information has been used to develop a watershed profile and to determine the…Publication Date 2008
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cumulative watershed effects
- grazing
- land use
- soil erosion
- United States
- Library Collection RecordTransformation of indigenous vegetation for production purposes impacts negatively on biodiversity but does this necessarily equate with a decrease in phytomass accumulation, which may influence…Publication Date 2008
- grasslands
- plant production
- carbon sequestration
- land use
- management
- conservation
- agriculture
- pasture management
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSince the rise of its first democratically elected government in 1994, South Africa has sought to redress its highly inequitable land distribution through a series of land-reform programs. In this…Publication Date 2008
- land redistribution
- Limpopo Province
- political ecology
- South Africa
- Western Cape Province
- land reform
- policies
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn Kenya, lands surrounding wildlife protected areas (PAs), referred to as dispersal areas, have undergone widespread land use changes, but these have been little studied. This study investigated…Publication Date 2008
- conservation
- agriculture
- national parks
- land use
- grazing
- biodiversity
- disturbance
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis review discusses persistent tensions in efforts to secure land rights in Africa's drylands. Some researchers and practitioners advocate for formal, legal recognition of group rights as a…Publication Date 2008
- drylands
- Secure access
- land tenure
- Customary rights
- natural resources
- Multiple users
- Africa
- subsistence agriculture
- land use
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA number of studies have begun to show the large impact that pastoralism has on African savanna ecosystems. Here we look at the impact of abandoned settlements on the distribution of the large…Publication Date 2008
- pastoralism
- Sedentarization
- primary succession
- Nutrient hotspots
- community
- land use
- Abandoned lands
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFragmentation of the ecosystems of the earth into spatially isolated units has emerged as a primary component of global change. Often, fragmentation results from actions that are intended to enhance…Publication Date 2008
- fragmentation
- rangelands
- adaptation
- public policy
- Economic Aspects
- policies
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransfrontier conservation has taken Southern Africa by storm, where the modus operandi remains simple and intuitive: by dissolving boundaries, local benefits grow as conservation and development…Publication Date 2008
- Transfrontier conservation
- Neoliberalism
- Community-based natural resources management
- Livelihoods
- South Africa
- transfrontier parks
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- eco-tourism
- decision support systems
- economics
- policies
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand management in tropical woodlands is being used to sequester carbon (C), alleviate poverty and protect biodiversity, among other benefits. Our objective was to determine how slash-and-burn…Publication Date 2008
- savanna
- Tropical deciduous forest
- basal area
- Allometric equations
- Wood density
- soil bulk density
- Soil C stock
- biodiversity
- Shannon index
- Chronosequence
- land use
- carbon dioxide
- carbon sequestration
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- soil organic carbon
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a procedure for evaluating the desertification risk in threatened areas. The procedure is based on an eight-equation dynamic model of a generic human-resource system that can be…Publication Date 2008
- Desertification risk
- System Dynamics
- Alternative long-term states
- desertification
- modelling
- management
- grasslands
- sustainability
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordContinuous human population expansion pressure on conservation ecosystems restricts wildlife areas, and necessitates active management. In areas of changing land-use and increasing human-animal…Publication Date 2008
- Loxodonta africana
- Ranging behaviour
- Reaction time
- Cautious behaviour
- Response indicator
- GIS
- national parks
- management
- land use
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWithin the Kyoto Protocol, the clean development mechanism (CDM) is an instrument intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while assisting developing countries in achieving sustainable…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- afforestation
- reforestation
- land use
- Spatial modeling
- trees
- forests
- carbon
- CDM-AR
- land use change
- greenhouse gases
- Sustainable development
- socio-economic aspects
- Carbon Sink
- grasslands
- savanna
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2007-10-01
- range management
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2007-06-01
- range management
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2007-04-01
- range management
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2007-02-01
- range management
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Anthropogenic perturbations have profoundly modified the Earth's biogeochemical cycles, the most prominent of these changes being manifested by global carbon (C) cycling. We…Publication Date 2007
- carbon sequestration
- 13C NMR
- deforestation
- land-use change
- NEXAFS
- organic matter composition
- Sr-FTIR-ATR
- synchrotron radiation
- land use
- grasslands
- vegetation dynamics
- carbon dynamics
- soil organic carbon
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection Record[1] Land use/cover change has been recognized as a key component in global change. Various land cover data sets, including historically reconstructed, recently observed, and future projected, have…Publication Date 2007
- land use
- climate change
- management
- classification
- data analysis
- remote sensing
- modelling
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiodiversity is a critical component of the natural environment and the protection of it often meant the displacement of local communities in developing countries. The Richtersveld National Park (…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- conservation
- Population crashes
- Herd recovery
- goats
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- national parks
- sheep
- pastoralism
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper introduces the Special Issue on Sustainable Land Use in Namaqualand which arose out of a conference held in the region in May 2005. It outlines the main themes and issues covered by 19…Publication Date 2007
- degradation
- Environmental history
- Karoo
- restoration
- semi-arid
- land reform
- sustainability
- land use
- restoration ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAdvanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data (NDVI, 1 km2, 1985-2003) and modeled net primary production (NPP, 8 km2, 1981-2000) data were used to…Publication Date 2007
- monitoring
- AVHRR
- NDVI
- rain-use efficiency
- NPP
- Communal lands
- South Africa
- degradation
- land use
- remote sensing
- NDVI values
- mapping
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe use the concept of ecological revolutions to explain the environmental history of Namaqualand, from the advent of pastoralism 2000 years BP, to colonial settlement in the 18th century and finally…Publication Date 2007
- degradation
- Environmental history
- human impact
- population
- repeat photography
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- grazing
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAs part of an investigation of land degradation in the South African Karoo, three types of fine sediment signatures (radionuclides, mineral magnetism and sediment geochemistry) were used to trace the…Publication Date 2007
- Sediment fingerprinting
- South African Karoo
- Erosion history
- Extreme events
- 137Cs and 210Pb
- land use
- soils
- management
- grazing
- fire
- livestock
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa is poorly endowed with natural forests, and is heavily dependent on plantations of exotic forestry species to meet its timber needs. The first forest plantations of exotic trees were…Publication Date 2007
- forest plantations
- Hydrological impacts
- legislation
- Licensing
- South Africa
- hydrology
- land use
- monitoring
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDeserts are known to mankind, but the term desertification has always been an elusive concept. It is now defined in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as land degradation…Publication Date 2007
- land degradation
- Land use and land cover changes
- overgrazing
- Biomass burning and atmospheric emissions
- Air Pollution
- Forest and woodland clearing
- wind erosion
- climate change
- degradation
- erosion
- land use
- grazing
- management
- Carbon Sink
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFarm practices in the Sneeuberg Mountains, Karoo, South Africa are examined to assess their contribution to the development of the observed gullies and badlands. Data from the literature is augmented…Publication Date 2007
- erosion
- land degradation
- range management
- vegetation
- grazing
- Stock
- management
- degradation
- land use
- participatory rural appraisal
- livestock
- rehabilitation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2006-12-01
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2006-10-01
- rangelands
- land restoration
- seeds
- wild plants
- ecotypes
- cultivars
- indigenous species
- outbreeding depression
- inbreeding
- plant adaptation
- range management
- plant genetic resources
- plant communities
- botanical composition
- evolution
- natural selection
- genetic stability
- seed sources
- wild plant husbandry
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2006-10-01
- range management
- Library Collection RecordComplete digitized issue. The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2006-08-01
- range management