Whos carrying capacity ?

摘要：

In arid and semi‐arid rangeland of Inner Mongolia, carrying capacity (CC) management at household rangeland scale has been implemented forcibly by the government since the 1980s when (livestock and grassland) Double Contract policy was initiated.The stocking rate for each household was indicated in the contract that was signed between the government and each herder household ( Li et al, 2007 ).Nevertheless, CC management has never been accepted by herders, and they never think its their CC.So often, the government complains that herders dont follow the contract to control the number of their livestock within the required stocking rate, and it has thus been deduced that current rangeland degradation resulted from failure of CC control.What does CC mean to herders ?If its not their carrying capacity, whose carrying capacity it is ?

关键词： carrying capacity double contract policy stocking rate arid and semiarid rangeland Inner Mongolia

作者: Wenjun Li Qian Zhang Yina Xie Changling Li Yanbo Li

作者单位: Department of Environmental Management,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China

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）