To fence or not to fence: policy and enclosure on the Tibetan plateau

摘要：

Range enclosure, livestock intensification and nomadic settlement are being implemented by the Chinese government.The rationale is to restore degraded land, prevent desertification and improve pastoral welfare.The Qinghai‐ Tibetan plateau is the worlds most extensive high altitude grassland with a mean elevation of 3,700 m, and an area of 310 million ha thinly populated mainly by some 5 million ethnic Tibetan farmers and nomads.For millennia the grasslands have sustained open range grazing by nomads raising sheep, goats, yaks, horses and cattle.An international interdisciplinary research project is investigating the impacts of policy‐driven land use change in these grasslands.

关键词： pastoralism grazing enclosure policy Peoples Republic of China Tibet

作者: G.Davidson R.H.Behnke C.Kerven

作者单位: The Macaulay Institute,Craigiebuckler,Aberdeen AB158QH,UK

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）