People’s perceptions of their environment
in high mountain rangelands ultimately
affect the fragile ecosystems on which
they depend, and thus their welfare. This is
especially true in developing countries,
where the livelihoods of people living in such ecosystems depend on grazing
livestock. The ...
Cruz, Mariana
,
Quiróz, R.
,
Herrero, Mario T.
,
[Use of Visual Material for Eliciting Shepherds’ Perceptions of Grassland in Highland Peru]
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Use of Visual Material for Eliciting Shepherds’ Perceptions of Grassland in Highland Peru
The livestock and environment nexus has been the subject of considerable research in the past decade. With a more prosperous and urbanized population projected to grow significantly in the coming decades comes a gargantuan appetite for livestock products. There is growing concern about how to acc...
Herrero, Mario T.
,
Wirsenius, S.
,
Henderson, Benjamin B.
,
Rigolot, Cyrille
,
Thornton, Philip K.
,
Havlík, Petr
,
Boer, Imke J.M. de
,
Gerber, Pierre J.
,
[Livestock and the environment: What have we learned in the past decade?]
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Livestock and the environment: What have we learned in the past decade?
Livestock are responsible for 12% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable intensification of livestock production systems might become a key climate mitigation technology. However, livestock production systems vary substantially, making the implementation of climate mitigation poli...
Havlík, Petr
,
Valin, Hugo
,
Herrero, Mario T.
,
Obersteiner, Michael
,
Schmid, Erwin
,
Rufino, Mariana C.
,
Mosnier, Aline
,
Thornton, Philip K.
,
Böttcher, Hannes
,
Conant, Richard T.
,
Frank, S.
,
Fritz, Steffen
,
Fuss, S.
,
Kraxner, Florian
,
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
,
[Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions]
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Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions