@inbook {JRN52686,
	title = {Adaptive management of grazing lands},
	booktitle = {Dryland East Asia, Land Dynamics Amid Social and Climate Change},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {447-464},
	publisher = {Higher Education Press},
	organization = {Higher Education Press},
	chapter = {19},
	address = {Beijing, China},
	abstract = {<p>Rangelands, the mainland type used as grazing lands, occupy ~54\% of the world{\textquoteright}s ice-free land surface, and grasslands dominate ~ 16\% of all rangelands.\&nbsp; China is the third largest country for rangeland resources in the world and has approximately 400 million ha rangeland, about 40\% of China{\textquoteright}s land surface.\&nbsp; These grazing lands are susceptible to severe degradation due to overexploitation, especially, overgrazing.\&nbsp; This chapter provides an overview of the geographic distribution and management issues of these grazing lands, and a case study on adaptive management in an innovative grazing system in desert steppe of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IM), China.\&nbsp; We emphasize the importance of applying models and management demonstration related to stocking rate reduction, lambing time change and the use of warm shed based on household to prevent resource degradation.\&nbsp; We discuss the interaction of ecological and economic benefits in the application of grazing systems for desert steppe areas.\&nbsp; We provide evidence for the use of an innovative adaptive management practice based on development of a summer grazing system with low stock rate and winter warm shed feeding.</p>
},
	author = {G. Han and Liu, Tong and Zhongwu Wang and Li, Zhiguo and Mengli Zhao and Kris Havstad and Jianguo Wu and Kemp, David}
}
