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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Mongolian Ecosystem Network
    sub title: Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes
  name:
    name part: Yamamura, Norio.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fujita, Noboru.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Maekawa, Ai.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 320 p. online resource.
  abstract: The aim of this book is to describe what is currently occurring in the Mongolian grasslands, to analyze how various factors creating environmental problems interact, and to suggest solutions for sustainable management of the grasslands. The book has three parts. Part I is an introduction, explaining the key concept of an ecosystem network and providing background information on the general features of Mongolian nomadic pastoralism as well as distribution of vegetation in Mongolian grasslands. Part II describes the effects of natural environmental factors and nomadic activities on grassland conditions. Water dynamics that maintain the grassland system are analyzed in a steppe region with shrubs and in a forest-steppe region with trees. Part III describes the effects of economic and social factors on land-use and the livelihood of herders. As nomadic people moved closer to large cities for economic advantage in the 1990s, degradation of pastures by overgrazing resulted. Finally, the impacts of global warming and globalization on the Mongolian society and ecosystem are examined. This book analyzes environmental problems in Mongolian grasslands, but the contents contribute to consideration of environmental problems and sustainable pasture use in grassland areas worldwide.
  table of contents: Preface -- Part I. Ecosystem Network and Mongolian Nomadism -- Part II. Natural Environment and Ecosystem Network -- Part III. Socio-Economic Activity and Ecosystem Network.
  note: edited by Norio Yamamura, Noboru Fujita, Ai Maekawa.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Terrestial Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  classification: QH541.15.A-541.15.Z
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ecological Research Monographs
  identifier: 9784431540526
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54052-6
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    record creation date: 120919
    record change date: 20151125231137.0
    record identifier: 978-4-431-54052-6