There is growing recognition of the need to achieve land use across southern Australian rangelands that accommodates changing societal preferences and ensures capacity future generations satisfy their own preferences. This paper considers prospects for sustainable pastoral lands based either on continued grazing or emerging, alternative uses. After an overview environment, status industry, its ...

In this paper, I examine how some nomadic pastoralists in Iran changed their use of the physical environment over the past thirty years and how these changes related to their economic practices. I base this paper on my anthropological research among Qashqa’i nomadic pastoralists in southwestern Iran in the 1970s and 1990s, including eight visits since the revolution in 1978-1979 and the Islamic...

The article is devoted to a discussion of the main results archaeozoological studies materials from settlements different periods Bronze Age in Southern Urals (the Sintashta and Alakul cultures) new methodological approaches study animal bones archaeological sites. basis life support system inhabitants throughout was breeding livestock. parameters husbandry were relatively stable did not underg...

Throughout Kenya, new governance regimes that are designed to sustain habitat connectivity for wildlife populations outside of national parks have gained increasing prominence. Though these often center a discursive emphasis on the synergies between conservation and pastoralist land use, it remains unclear how they interacted with colonial post-colonial legacies influenced pastoralists' relatio...