Global Rangelands: Progress and Prospects

Abstract

1: Challenges for Rangeland People, 2: Future Shocks to People and Rangelands, 3: Indigenous People in Rangelands, 4: Rangelands: People, Perceptions and Perspectives, 5: Desertification and Soil Processes in Rangelands, 6: Understanding and Managing Rangeland Plant Communities, 7: Range Management and Plant Functional Types, 8: People and Plant Invasions of the Rangelands, 9: People and Rangeland Biodiversity, 10: Managing Grazing, 11: Rehabilitation of Mined Surfaces, 12: Accounting for Rangeland Resources, 13: Building on History, Sending Agents into the Future - Rangeland Modelling, Retrospect and Prospect, 14: Integrating Management of Land and Water Resources: the Social, Economic and Environmental Consequences of Tree Management in Rangelands, 15: Land and Water Management: Lessons from a Project on Desertification in the Middle East, 16: International Perspectives on the Rangelands, 17: Policies, Planning and Institutions for Sustainable Resource Use: a Participatory Approach, 18: Economics and Ecology: Working Together for Better Policy, 19: Building the Future: Practical Challenges, 20: Rangeland Livelihoods in the 21st Century, 21: Building the Future: a Human Development Perspective, 22: Synthesis: New Visions and Prospects for Rangelands,