In this book, natural and social scientists examine savanna land use within a policy perspective. The text assesses the ecological, social, and economic constraints to savanna development and identifies the nature of policy changes necessary to enhance prospects for economic growth and development throughout the savanna regions. The book emphasizes development of policy recommendations at a national and international level.

The World's Savannas : Economic Driving Forces, Ecological Constraints and Policy Options for Sustainable Land Use

World Of Savannas: Economic Driving Force, Ecological Constraints And Policy (man And The Biosphere Series)

Young, M. D. (Michael Denis), 1952-; Solbrig, Otto Thomas

M. D Young; Otto Thomas Solbrig; Unesco

edited by M.D. Young and O.T. Solbrig

O.T. Solbrig; M.D. Young

M. D. Young (editor)

Paris: UNESCO ; Carnforth, Lancs, UK ; New York, USA: Parthenon Pub. Group

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Informa Healthcare

Unipub

Collection sciences de l'environnement (UNESCO), Paris, Carnforth, Lancs, UK, 1993

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

February 15, 1993

December 1993

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Output from an international workshop held at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi (Kenya) from 23-26 January 1991"--Pref.

xx, 350 pages : 25 cm
"Output from an international workshop held at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi (Kenya) from 23-26 January 1991"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references and index
Economic and ecological driving forces affecting tropical savannas / O.T. Solbrig and M.D. Young -- Ecological constraints to savanna land use / O.T. Solbrig -- Land tenure for pastoral communities / I. Scoones, C. Toulmin and C. Lane -- Land tenure in private and mixed-property regimes / J.H. Holmes -- National and international influences that drive savanna land use / M.D. Young -- Barabaig natural resource management / C. Lane and I. Scoones -- Becoming Kenyans: Maasai identity in a changing context / M. Kituyi -- Savanna land use: policy and practice in Zimbabwe / M.W. Murphee and D.H.M. Cumming -- Rangeland bioeconomics in revolutionary South Africa / M.T. Mentis and N. Seijas -- Developing Botswana's savannas / D.W. Pierce -- Restoring the productivity of Indian savannas / M. Gadgil -- Land use in Venezuela / J.F. Silva and A. Moreno -- Ecological impact of agricultural development in the Brazilian cerrados / C.A. Klink, A.G. Moreira and O.T. Solbrig -- Toward the diversified use of Australia's savannas / J.H. Holmes and J.J. Mott -- Providing an environmentally sustainable, economically profitable and socially equitable future for the world's savannas / M.D. Young and O.T. Solbrig

Economic and ecological driving forces affecting tropical savannas. Ecological constraints to savanna land use. Land tenure for pastoral communities. Land tenure in private and mixed-property regims. National and international influences that drive savanna land use. Barabaig natural resource management. Becoming kenyanse: Maasai identity in a changing context. Savanna land use: policy and practice in Zimbabwe. Rangeland bioeconomics in revolutionary South Africa. Developing Botswan's savannas. Restoring the productivity of Indian savannas. Private-property grazing systems. Land use in Venezuela. Ecological impact of agricultural development in the Brazilin cerrado. Towards the diversified use of Australia's savannas. Providing an environmetally sustainable, economically profitable and socialy equitable future for the world's savannas

Savannas are important natural systems, and it is imperative that they are managed properly to balance their uses. This book looks at how the needs of wildlife conservation, grazing, agriculture, recreation and pastoralism can be reconciled. It also looks at the effect of global climatic change

According to Bourliere and Hadley (1983) the term "savanna" designates a tropical grassland with scattered trees.

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