Conventional approaches to natural resource management are increasingly challenged by environmental problems that are embedded in highly complex systems with profound …
Livestock grazing in drylands supports pastoral livelihoods but is facing multiple changes including shocks such as severe droughts. Herdsmen specifically cite drought events as a …
A Mekasha, B Gerard, K Tesfaye, L Nigatu… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
We assessed land use/land cover changes from remotely sensed satellite imagery and compared this with community perceptions on availability/use of livestock feed resources …
Livestock is the most important source of income for pastoral livelihoods in drylands. Pastoralists have developed flexible resource utilization strategies that enable them to cope …
R Aerts, J Nyssen, M Haile - Journal of arid environments, 2009 - academia.edu
Rehabilitation of degraded land in arid and semiarid environments often involves excluding livestock from degraded sites. The main objective of such ''exclosures''is to allow native …
JC Ruppert, A Holm, S Miehe… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Questions In drylands above‐ground net primary production (ANPP) and rain‐use efficiency (RUE) are common ecological indicators for assessing ecosystem state, including …
Community technology design has been deeply affected by paradigm shifts and dominant discourses of its seminal disciplines, such as Human Computer Interaction, Cultural and …
In the past decades, social-ecological systems (SESs) worldwide have undergone dramatic transformations with often detrimental consequences for livelihoods. Although resilience …