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Managing China's Pastoral Lands: Current Problems And Future Prospects, Victor Roy Squires Dr
Managing China's Pastoral Lands: Current Problems And Future Prospects, Victor Roy Squires Dr
Victor Roy Squires Dr
China has the second largest area of pastoral land in the world, and these lands and their peoples play a very beneficial role in the global environment. Because of China’s huge population, rate of social reform, and economic development, the pastoral ecosystems are at a critical turning point. There is a conflict between national benefit and the land users (mainly herders) benefit. This paper introduces the scale of pastoral land, the history of its management institutions, past and current projects and programs, as well as the current framework of policy and law as relevant to land management. The challenges for …
River Basin Mangement In The Twenty-First Century: Understsanding Perople And Place, Victor Roy Squires Dr
River Basin Mangement In The Twenty-First Century: Understsanding Perople And Place, Victor Roy Squires Dr
Victor Roy Squires Dr
This book is novel approach to the problems of river basin management. Its contributors live and work in river basins across the globe, they draw on decades of experience in both developed and developing countries. The perspectives they bring include those of the social scientists, ecologists, hydrologists and policy makers. IWRM is placed in the context of a short history of IWRM ideas and concepts, a discussion of some parallel concerns which supported the development and adoption of these ideas.
Diversity Of Plants And Animals In Mountain Systems In Tajikistan, Victor Roy Squires Dr, Neymatalo Safarov Dr
Diversity Of Plants And Animals In Mountain Systems In Tajikistan, Victor Roy Squires Dr, Neymatalo Safarov Dr
Victor Roy Squires Dr
Tajikistan, a landlocked country, is one of the world's centers of origin of cultivated plants and has a special role in the conservation of mountain biodiversity. The richness of biodiversity shows up at the genetic, species, population, and ecosystem levels. There are many relic and endemic species, with most of the components of biodiversity vulnerable to anthropogenic factors. Close cooperation across borders will be required for conservation of unique and threatened ecosystems in the Central Asian region. Proximate threats such as poaching, overfishing, illegal logging and overgrazing are causing irreversible damage to biodiversity in the Tajikistan hotspot. Threats stem from …
Combating Deserttification In Asia, Africa And The Middle East, Victor Roy Squires Dr
Combating Deserttification In Asia, Africa And The Middle East, Victor Roy Squires Dr
Victor Roy Squires Dr
The fight against land degradation in terrestrial ecosystems forms one of the most complex challenges with regard to the various global environmental problems. It is most intensively linked to human life quality and to current living conditions in the poorer countries of the drier biomes on earth. The concept of the combat of desertification, as rooted in the charter of the United Nations Convention to combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD), can also be transferred to a wider sustainability agenda for the more humid ecosystems where accelerated land degradation, loss of biodiversity and vulnerability to climate change are emerging issues of …