During my trip to the town of Jyegu in the Yushu Tibeta n Autono mous Prefecture of Qin ghai Provi nee to see the development of mini-mills there,something extraordinary came to our attention:an unschooled amateur inv...
Outside rows of double-storied brown wood houses,the elders are enjoying their tea while inside,the women are busy baking bread or making traditional handicrafts.Zhongnihao is one of the elders.These members of the Ew...
the National Science Foundation Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems(CNH)Program(award BCS-1011801 entitled Does Community-Based Rangeland Ecosystem Management Increase Coupled Systems'Resilience to Climate Change in Mongolia?).
In semi-arid regions,air temperatures have increased in the last decades more than in many other parts of the world.Mongolia has an arid/semi-arid climate and much of the population are herders whose livelihoods depen...
In Mongolia,approx.200,000 herder families are breeding the livestock for their livings.Nearly half of them are not able to use the energy in proper or sustainable manner yet.Both the herd population and number of dom...
Sharma is a township in the Lhari County of Nagqu City,Tibet.The Barga Folk Culture Festival of Sharma Township is famous in this area.The term of barg means tent in Tibetan.Herders have lived in tents since ancient t...
Tsebum, a herder from the northern nomadic area of the Tibet Autonomous Region, has turned out to be quite the online celebrity in Beijing! A picture of the smiling man with his heroic-looking red plaited hair and yel...
This paper is a historical survey of western construction of the images of Con-fucianism ranging from the sixteenth century to nineteenth century. The historical process ofWestern version of Confucianism originally wa...
This research was partly supported by the project“Sustainable Conservation on Hungarian Natura 2000 Sites(SH/4/8)”within the frame-work of the Swiss Contribution Program and by the project“Silvopastoral systems of the Duna-Tisza koze region”supported by the Kiskunsag National Park.
The mutual dependence of extensive land-use and conservation management has become appar-ent in Europe in the last 20-30 yr.Extensive land-use often survives in protected areas only,in the form of conservation managem...
Ford Foundation (1105-1408);Natural Science Foundation of China (71273268) for providing funding supports
Grassland is most important in China due to its multi-functions. However, about 90% of total usable grassland in China has been degraded and the degradation expands at a rate of 2 million ha per year. Western China co...
Agriculture is an important source of economic survival of rural populations, and with great power for poverty reduction in the economy. For this reason farming systems that are most efficient have to be sought. This ...