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wild rangelands conserving wildlife while maintaining livestock in semi arid ecosystems
rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands shrublands savannas and semi deserts support half of the worlds livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species . this book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use over hunting and subsistence and commercial farming of livestock and crops . leading experts have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological sociological political veterinary and economic aspects of rangeland management today . this book provides practitioners and students of rangeland management and wildland conservation with a diversity of perspectives on a central question can rangelands be wildlands the first book to examine rangelands from a conservation perspectiveemphasizes the balance between the needs of people and livestock and wildlifewritten by an international team of experts covering all geographical regionsexamines ecological sociological political veterinary and economic aspects of rangeland management and wildland conservation providing a diversity of perspectives not seen before in a single volume
paperback blackwell pub 2009 isbn13 9781405177856 isbn10 1405177853
book type nf isbn 13 9781405177856 number of pages 424 publisher wiley blackwell release date 62135769600000