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DOI10.1002/ldr.610
Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari
Thomas, DSG; Twyman, C
通讯作者Thomas, DSG
来源期刊LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN1085-3278
EISSN1099-145X
出版年2004
卷号15期号:3页码:215-231
英文摘要

Using data from field studies in the Kalahari rangelands of Southern Africa, the relationships between ’scientific’ and ’land user’ interpretations of land degradation and change in nonequilibrium savanna ecosystems are explored. Scientific and landuser views are often regarded as distinct, and even opposed, knowledges. We contest that a more constructive view can be taken through the concept of hybrid knowledge, whereby value is attached to both approaches and through which a more useful and meaningful assessment of environmental change, and its implications for development and natural resource use, can be made. We find that in both the Southwestern and northwestern Kalahari, pastoralists have a complex understanding of the patchiness of ecosystem variability, and that they utilise elements of this patchiness of change, notably dimensions of bush encroachment and grass species change that have commonly been regarded as degradation in scientific understandings, within livestock management strategies, especially at times of environmental stress. We urge caution in the application of the term degradation, and a more widespread recognition of the multifaceted dimensions, including benefits, of change within the scientifically recognized variability of nonequilibrium rangelands. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.


英文关键词knowledge repertoires hybrid knowledge ecological change land degradation Kalahari Southern Africa
类型Article ; Proceedings Paper
语种英语
国家England
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI ; CPCI-S
WOS记录号WOS:000222153100003
WOS关键词COMMUNITY RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT ; LAND DEGRADATION ; BOTSWANA ; DESERTIFICATION ; ECOLOGY ; DESERT ; AFRICA ; AREAS
WOS类目Environmental Sciences ; Soil Science
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Agriculture
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/147611
作者单位(1)Univ Sheffield, Dept Geog, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
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Thomas, DSG,Twyman, C. Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari[J],2004,15(3):215-231.
APA Thomas, DSG,&Twyman, C.(2004).Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari.LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT,15(3),215-231.
MLA Thomas, DSG,et al."Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari".LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT 15.3(2004):215-231.
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