Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi)
"Sustainable Rangelands Management According to Biased Distribution
of Livestock in the Tibetan Cultural Sphere"
Project Leader: YAMAGUCHI, Takayoshi
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- Outline
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Rangeland degradation has been a serious issue for the inland countries
of the Eurasian continent, and many countries have tried to solve issues
with a blanket approach toward property arrangement such as nationalization
or privatization. However, such counter measures have had poor results
due to disparities when considering the actual situation of pastoral societies.
Rangeland environment is naturally and socially heterogeneous, and effects
their conditions. Rangelands which have good foraging capacity and accessibility
tend to be degraded by grazing, yet on the other hand, remote or low-quality
rangelands have been underused. Therefore, they require detailed measures
according to their respective actual utility conditions. In this study,
I will explain the mechanisms which generate the biased distribution of
pastoralists and livestock among rangelands from a viewpoint of people's
subsistence strategies, and insist on the necessity of alternative measures
which consider such uneven utilization.
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