Pastoralism
Research, Policy and Practice
Description
"Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice" is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the brand SpringerOpen. It is an interdisciplinary journal on extensive livestock production systems throughout the world. Pastoralists rely on rangelands and livestock for their livelihoods, but exhibit different levels of mobility and market involvement, and operate under a variety of different land tenure regimes. Pastoralism publishes research that influences public policy, to improve the welfare of these people and better conserve the environments in which they live.
The journal investigates pastoralism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives across the biophysical, social and economic sciences. This is not applied research in the traditional sense, but relevant research - sometimes even basic research - with the capacity ultimately to change the way practical people do business. Predicting what kind of research will fulfil this role is virtually impossible. What we can do is keep policy makers, practitioners and pastoralists talking to scientists and researchers and aware of each other's concerns.
The interdisciplinary commitment of Pastoralism goes beyond the welcome routinely extended to other disciplines by specialized journals. We predict that the formative work on pastoralism in the coming decade will be situated on the interface between the biological, social and economic sciences. If this prediction is true, then this journal will be part of the process.
The Editorial Board includes anthropologists, botanists, development practitioners, ecologists, economists, geographers, international agency professionals, modelers, policy-makers, and range and livestock biological scientists.
Latest Articles
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Book review
Review of Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands: Environment, Governance and Risk edited by Ariell Ahearn and Troy Sternberg with Allison Hahn
Tracy Burnett (April 2018)
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Book review
Review of Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran: The Qashqa’i in an Era of Change by Lois Beck
Richard Tapper (March 2018)
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Book review
Review of Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era by Daniel T. Potts
Cameron Andrew Petrie (March 2018)

- Available 2011 - 2018
- Volumes 8
- Issues 8
- Articles 200
- Open Access 200 Articles
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- Journal Title
- Pastoralism
- Coverage
- Volume 1 / 2011 - Volume 8 / 2018
- Online ISSN
- 2041-7136
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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