Wild Rangelands Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems

by du Toit, Johan T.; Kock, Richard; Deutsch , James

• ISBN13: 9781405194884
• ISBN10: 140519488X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of the world's 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 is 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 perspective Emphasizes the balance between the needs of people and livestock, and wildlife Written by an international team of experts covering all geographical regions Examines 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

Author Biography

Johan T. du Toit is a professor at Utah State University, where he is the Head of the Department of Wildland Resources. He is especially interested in the ecology of large mammals and the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems through the fusion of science and management.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xv
Foreword	p. xix
Introduction: A Review of Rangeland Conservation Issues in an Uncertain Future	p. 1
Thematic Reviews	p. 13
Riding the Rangelands Piggyback: A Resilience Approach to Conservation Management	p. 15
Addressing the Mismatches between Livestock Production and Wildlife Conservation across Spatio-temporal Scales and Institutional Levels	p. 30
Rangeland Conservation and Shrub Encroachment: New Perspectives on an Old Problem	p. 53
Health and Disease in Wild Rangelands	p. 98
Contemporary Views of Human-Carnivore Conflicts on Wild Rangelands	p. 129
Financial Incentives for Rangeland Conservation: Addressing the 'Show-Us-the-Money' Challenge	p. 152
Case Studies	p. 189
Biodiversity Conservation in Australian Tropical Rangelands	p. 191
Livestock Grazing and Wildlife Conservation in the American West: Historical, Policy and Conservation Biology Perspectives	p. 235
Guanaco Management in Patagonian Rangelands: A Conservation Opportunity on the Brink of Collapse	p. 266
Multiple Use of Trans-Himalayan Rangelands: Reconciling Human Livelihoods with Wildlife Conservation	p. 291
Herders and Hunters in a Transitional Economy: The Challenge of Wildlife and Rangeland Management in Post-socialist Mongolia	p. 312
Social and Economic Challenges for Conservation in East African Rangelands: Land use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Change in Maasailand	p. 340
The Future for Wildlife on Kenya's Rangelands: An Economic Perspective	p. 367
Synthesis: Local and Global Solutions to the Challenge of Keeping Rangelands Wild	p. 393
Index	p. 403
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