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Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia

Central Asia encompasses a vast area that includes deserts, natural grasslands, steppes, shrub lands and alpine regions. Many of these land types are degraded and productivity is falling at a time when human populations and livestock inventories are on the rise. Ecosystem stability and biodiversity are under threat and there is an urgent need to develop more sustainable land management regimes. This book uses an integrated regional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of sustainable land development in Central Asia. An interdisciplinary team of experts analyses the economic, ecological, sociological, technological and political factors surrounding sustainable land and water management in the region, sharing potential problems and solutions. As international concern about desertification grows, the book concludes by asking how the region is likely to develop in the future. This book will be of value to scholars, students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in sustainable development in Central Asia.

Victor R. Squires is a Guest Professor in the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Lu Qi is Director and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Desertification Studies, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China.

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Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment

The role of Asia will be crucial in tackling the worlds environmental problems. The primary aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality, research-level work by scholars in both the East and the West on all aspects of Asia and the environment. The series aims to cover all aspects of environmental issues, including how these relate to economic development, sustainability, technology, society, and government policies; and to include all regions of Asia.

1 Climate Change Governance in Chinese Cities

Qianqinq Mai and Maria Francesch-Huidobro

2 Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan
Challenges and Opportunities

Stephanie Assmann

3 Deliberating Environmental Policy in India
Participation and the Role of Advocacy

Sunayana Ganguly

4 Japans Environmental Politics and Governance
From Trading Nation to EcoNation

Yasuo Takao

5 Climate Change Policy in Japan
From the 1980s to 2015

Yasuko Kameyama

6 Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia
An Integrated and Regional Perspective

Edited by Victor R. Squires and Lu Qi

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Sustainable Land Management
in Greater Central Asia

An Integrated and Regional Perspective

Edited by Victor R. Squires
and Lu Qi

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First published 2018
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The right of Victor R. Squires and Lu Qi to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978-1-138-93216-6 (hbk)
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Dr. Victor Squires is a Guest Professor in the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing, China. He has a PhD in Rangeland Science from Utah State University, USA. He is a former Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resource Management at the University of Adelaide, where he worked for 15 years after a 22-year career in Australias CSIRO. He is author/editor of 12 books, including River Basin Management in the Twenty-first Century: Understanding People and Place (2014) and Rangeland Ecology, Management and Conservation Benefits (2015). Since his retirement from the University of Adelaide, Dr. Squires was a Visiting Fellow in the East West Center, Hawaii, and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Arizona, Tucson and at the Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and various UN agencies in Africa, China, Central Asia and the Middle East.

He was awarded the International Award and Gold Medal for International Science and Technology Cooperation in 2008 by the Government of China and in 2011 was awarded the Friendship Award by the Government of China. The Gold Medal is the highest award for foreigners. In 2015, Dr. Squires was honored by the Society for Range Management (USA) with an Outstanding Achievement Award.

Professor Lu Qi is Chief Scientist and Director of the Institute of Desertification Studies (IDS) in Beijing, China. The IDS is one of two such institutes in the world. Dr. Lu has a PhD in Ecology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and is a specialist in dryland sustainable development, integrated ecosystem management/desert ecology, and combating desertification and land degradation. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Dr. Lu is author/editor of 20 books, notably A Study of Kumtagh Desert (in Chinese; 2012), Desert Plants in China (illustrated handbook, in Chinese; 2012) and Rangeland Degradation and Recovery in Chinas Pastoral Lands (2009).

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Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia: An Integrated and Regional Perspective is a timely book, coming as it does at the start of major global shifts to strengthen sustainable development and combat climate change. The book takes a critical look at the nine countries in Greater Central Asia, tackles knotty policy questions and stakes out a strong position on the significance of land degradation neutrality for the future of the region. Few regions have done that or carried out regional analyses of this kind, which are vital for effective, pragmatic action in combatting land degradation.

The challenges the region faces bear strong similarities to those faced by populations in many other parts of the world large aging populations or a growing bubble of young people, the threats of forced migration and of ecosystem change as well as the external pressures to exploit the untapped land resources. These are complex policy dilemmas but they offer possibilities for transformative change.

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