Abstract
Based on the preceding chapters and other experience, we seek to review the impacts of the changes of the last 100 years in the Central Asian region and to point a way forward that might be more ‘sustainable’ and of more value to both the farming and livestock communities who live in the region than the negative impacts of the adjustments to recent political and economic events have been.
This suggested path forward seeks to enhance the symbiotic relationship that has almost always characterised farmer-livestock-grassland relationships, by better adapting to the new institutional and economic circumstances to make the whole system more resilient to future change as urban populations and demands increase.
The pathway requires a more integrated and decentralised approach than has been the experience through this last century or so and a better community understanding of the interdependencies between the biophysical and social systems that underpin life in the region. The different, but complementary, paths taken by farmers, who are bound to place, and nomadic people and their animals are the subjects of this chapter.
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Tongway D in “Landscape Ecology; Function and Management” Edits Ludwig J, Tongway, D Feudenberger, Noble J &Hodgkinson K CSIRO publishing 1997.
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Ludwig J Tongway D et al 1997 (Ibid.) Page 10–12.
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Ludwig J Tongway D et al 1997 (Ibid.) Figure 5.1 and Pages 50–61.
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Tongway D in “Landscape Ecology; Function and Management” Edits Ludwig J, Tongway, D Feudenberger, Noble J &Hodgkinson K CSIRO publishing 1997 as elaborated in “Putting Principles into Practice” David J Tongway& John A Ludwig CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems SBN: 9781597265812 2010.
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This may have been unconscious, as they termed the earlier diagrams ‘Frameworks’.
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Leake, J.E. (2012). Conclusions and a Way Forward. In: Squires, V. (eds) Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5367-9_18
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