Grassland degradation and livelihoods in China's western pastoral regionстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Purpose China has embarked on a major concerted strategy to arrest grassland degradation and livelihood problems in the western pastoral region. The paper aims to provide a framework through which this strategy can be understood and refined into the future. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a typology of grassland policies – technical, administrative, and management – and a discussion of the emphasis that China has and should place on each policy category. Data are drawn from policy documents and interview material collected through extensive fieldwork in large tracts of China's western pastoral region. Findings China has appropriately pursued “top‐down” technical and administrative policies to address major and immediate degradation‐livelihoods problems. However, longer term solutions to the problems require the strengthening of management structures from the “bottom‐up”, especially amongst herders themselves and other economic factors. Practical implications The paper proposes a series of concrete recommendations that may be considered as China refines its grasslands strategy into the future. The emphasis in the paper on the relationships between multi‐dimensional policies is of particular value in addressing multi‐dimensional grasslands‐livelihood problems. Originality/value Despite the magnitude and implications of China's recent grasslands strategy, there is a dearth of English language studies on the subject, which this paper aims to fill. The paper includes numerous micro‐level insights gained from extensive fieldwork in the western pastoral region that are not evident in more macro‐level studies.
Год издания: 2010
Авторы: Scott Waldron, Colin G. Brown, John W. Longworth
Издательство: Emerald Publishing Limited
Источник: China Agricultural Economic Review
Ключевые слова: Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
Открытый доступ: closed
Том: 2
Выпуск: 3
Страницы: 298–320