The Role of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Managing Rangelands Sustainably in Northern Iran

Pastoralists' knowledge of adaptive rangeland management in Iran has long been only selectively analyzed and documented. This study attempts to rectify that by outlining the indigenous ecological knowledge of the pastoralists of Nariyan village in the Taleghan region of northern Iran, and by ev...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Ghorbani, Hossein Azarnivand, Ali Akbar Mehrabi, Mohammad Jafari, Hooshang Nayebi, Klaus Seeland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2013-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss2/art15/