<p style="padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">UCA’s, Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) researchers served as guest editors of this special issue of MRD, an international peer-reviewed journal published by the International Mountain Society, of which UCA and MSRC are institutional members. The issue features information on MSRC and its first background paper on mountain pastoralism; analysis of development initiatives on pasture governance reforms, climate change adaptation, large carnivore conservation, and thermal insulation, and on the quality of life in remote mountain communities in Afghan Badakhshan; and innovative scientific research on differing meanings of pasture, changing pasture use, pasture tenure, farming system modeling, and livelihoods in conflict areas.<br></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Source: <a href="http://msri.ucentralasia.org/events.asp?Nid=418">University of Central Asia Mountain&nbsp;Societies&nbsp;Research Institute</a></p>
MSRC: Mountain Research and Development Special issue: Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition
Type
journal
Year
2012

UCA’s, Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) researchers served as guest editors of this special issue of MRD, an international peer-reviewed journal published by the International Mountain Society, of which UCA and MSRC are institutional members. The issue features information on MSRC and its first background paper on mountain pastoralism; analysis of development initiatives on pasture governance reforms, climate change adaptation, large carnivore conservation, and thermal insulation, and on the quality of life in remote mountain communities in Afghan Badakhshan; and innovative scientific research on differing meanings of pasture, changing pasture use, pasture tenure, farming system modeling, and livelihoods in conflict areas.

Source: University of Central Asia Mountain Societies Research Institute

Citation
Dear, Chad & Horst Weyerhaeuser (eds.). "Special issue: Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition." Mountain Research and Development. 32(3): 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/mrd.3203.
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Copyright
International Mountain Society
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Language
English
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