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Informationen zum Autor Johan T. du Toit is a professor at Utah State University, where he is the Head of the Department of Wildland Resources. He is especially interested in the ecology of large mammals and the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems through the fusion of science and management. Richard Kock is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and specialist in wildlife medicine. He has worked with a focus on wildlife health and conservation, livestock and mixed wildlife/livestock communities and in rangelands throughout his career. He has worked for the Zoological Society of London for 26 years and now works in the African and South Asian region looking at wildlife health programmes in wild rangelands. James Deutsch directs the Africa Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society, with over a thousand staff working to save globally important landscapes and species in twelve African countries. James has lectured at the University of East Anglia and Imperial College, helped found the Tropical Biology Association and AIDS Treatment Project, ran Crusaid, and chairs Aidspan. Klappentext Rangelands, which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, and represent almost half of the terrestrial surface of the Earth, are defined by their use by people as grazing lands for extensive livestock production. However, these ecosystems also constitute a major share of global biodiversity, include some of the most charismatic landscapes and species on our planet, and supply essential ecosystem goods and services to many millions of people who live outside of the global economy. Reconciling livestock production with wildlife conservation is thus a key requirement of sustainable development, but the obstacles are immense. The contributors to this book include leading experts who have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of the situation as it exists today. This is to provide practitioners, and students of rangeland management and wildland conservation with a diversity of perspectives on a central question: can rangelands be wildlands? Zusammenfassung Rangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use! over-hunting! and subsistence and commercial farming of livestock and crops. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors vii Preface xv Foreword by Anthony R.E. Sinclair and George B. Schaller xix 1. Introduction: A Review of Rangeland Conservation Issues in an Uncertain Future 1 Monica L. Wrobel and Kent H. Redford Part I Thematic Reviews 13 2. Riding the Rangelands Piggyback: A Resilience Approach to Conservation Management 15 Brian Walker 3. Addressing the Mismatches between Livestock Production and Wildlife Conservation across Spatio-temporal Scales and Institutional Levels 30 Johan T. du Toit 4. Rangeland Conservation and Shrub Encroachment: New Perspectives on an Old Problem 53 Steven R. Archer 5. Health and Disease in Wild Rangelands 98 Richard Kock, Mike Kock, Sarah Cleaveland and Gavin Thomson 6. Contemporary Views of Human-Carnivore Conflicts on Wild Rangelands 129 Alexandra Zimmermann, Nick Baker, Chloe Inskip, John D.C. Linnell, Silvio Marchini, John Odden, Gregory Rasmussen and Adrian Treves 7. Financial Incentives for Rangeland Conservation: Addressing the 'Show-Us-the-Money' Challenge 152 Ray Victurine and Charles Curtin Part II Case Studies 189 8. Biodiversity Conservation in Australian Tropical Rangelands 191 Stephen T. Garnett, John C.Z. Woinarski, Gabriel M. Cr...
