Improving the life satisfaction of ecological migrants is important for promoting construction an civilisation. Based on using sustainable livelihood theory and social adaptation to construct analytical framework satisfaction, we innovatively include capital, adaptation, in same research framework. Using microscopic data Kazakh herders Kalajun, Xinjiang, empirically analyse effects capital herd...

Abstract This article combines Aoki’s institutional complementarity concept with actor-centered analysis of action situations to study herder behavior and change in a complex pastoral social–ecological system. Transformation the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem face climate social has led decline mobility, which turn is making ecosystem less sustainable. Responding this concern, policymakers have des...

China’s Grassland Eco-Subsidy Program has been implemented since 2011 to protect and sustain grassland resources improve the economic situation of herders. In this case study, we aimed evaluate policy from perspective pastoral differentiations their willingness accept (WTA) eco-subsidy. Using contingent valuation method (CVM), interviewed 410 herder households in grass–livestock balance sub-pol...

Current public discourse in Finland concerning reindeer herding has focused on the overgrazing problem and conflicts between herding and competitive forms of land use. Both herders and government administrators agree on the problems of herding, but conceptualize their causes differently. Administrators insist that sustainability in herding is reachable through bioeconomic management that unites...

BACKGROUND The Arctic area is a part of the globe where the increase in global temperature has had the earliest noticeable effect and indigenous peoples, including the Swedish reindeer herding Sami, are amongst the first to be affected by these changes. OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences and perceptions of climate change among Swedish reindeer herding Sami. STUDY DESIGN In-depth interview...

Abstract The territory of the Wayuu indigenous people comprises a small, low mountain range surrounded by large desert that extends from Colombia to Venezuela in Guajira peninsula. In pre-Columbian times, livelihoods relied mainly on fishing and hunting littoral zone. Following Spanish conquest, their fight maintain territorial integrity they turned rearing cattle, goats, sheep captured colonis...

BACKGROUND The Samburu region of northern Kenya is undergoing significant change, driven by factors including greater value on formal education, improvements in infrastructure and development, a shift from community to private ownership of land, increased sedentary lifestyles and global climate change. One outcome of these changes are an increasingly greater likelihood for adolescent boys to be...