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Potential demographic and genetic effects of a sterilant applied to wild horse mares
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Reston, Virginia : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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From hunters to herders : the transformation of earth, society, and heaven among the Inupiat of Beringia
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Year: 2004 Publisher: [Anchorage, Alaska] : [U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office],

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Pastoralism : research, policy and practice.
ISSN: 20417136 20417128 Year: 2011 Publisher: Heidelberg : Springer,


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Pastoralism and development in Africa : dynamic change at the margins
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ISBN: 0415540712 0415540720 1136255850 1283861933 0203105974 1136255842 9780415540711 9780415540728 Year: 2013 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics and conflict, to aid agency failures, and more. But it is not all disaster and catastrophe. Many successful development efforts at 'the margins' often remain hidden, informal, sometimes illegal; and rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. If we shift our gaze from the capital ci


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Exile from the Grasslands : Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects.
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ISBN: 9780295748184 0295748184 9780295748191 0295748192 0295748206 Year: 2020 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

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"At the start of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched an ambitious new development program with far-reaching economic, environmental, and cultural effects in remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. The Great Opening of the West program diverts pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and urban livelihoods, resulting in a massive shift in social and economic patterns. Based on fieldwork that has been ongoing since 2007, this ethnography documents the transformation of Tibetan pastoral society in Qinghai Province under Chinese development efforts. It describes sedentarization and relocation policy agendas, viewpoints of both the affected pastoral population and officials charged with implementing policy, and case studies of pastoralists' response to sedentarization and other grassland management policies"--

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Tibetans --- Nomads --- Herders --- Grasslands --- Range policy --- Forced migration --- Pastoral systems --- Economic development projects --- Development projects, Economic --- Projects, Economic development --- Economic assistance --- Technical assistance --- Herding systems --- Pastoralism --- Animal culture --- Livestock systems --- Herding --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Compulsory resettlement --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Involuntary resettlement --- Migration, Forced --- Purification, Ethnic --- Relocation, Forced --- Resettlement, Involuntary --- Migration, Internal --- Range management --- Rangelands --- Grass lands --- Lands, Grass --- Grasses --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Herdsmen --- Stockmen (Animal industry) --- Livestock workers --- Livestock --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Cultural assimilation --- Sedentarization --- Economic conditions --- Management --- Government policy --- Zêkog Xian (China) --- Tse-kʻu Hsien (China) --- S06/0240 --- S24/0800 --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- Tibet--Social conditions (incl. ethnography) --- Tibetans: cultural assimilation: China. --- Nomads: sedentarization: China. --- Herders: China. --- Tibetans: China: economic conditions. --- Grasslands: China. --- Forced migration: China. --- Pastoral systems: China. --- Economic development projects: China. --- Sedentarisation of nomads --- Sedentarization of nomads --- Settlement of nomads --- Tibetan diaspora --- Migrations. --- Sedentarization. --- Sedentarisation --- Rtse-khog Rdzong (China)


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Zootechnologies : a media history of swarm research
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ISBN: 9048537428 9789048537426 9789462986206 9462986207 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of computer science: After decades of painstaking biological observations in the ocean, experiments in aquariums, and mathematical model-making, it was swarms-inspired computer simulation which provided biological researchers with enduring knowledge about animal collectives. At the same time, a turn to biological principles of self-organization made it possible to adapt to unclearly delineated sets of problems and clarify the operation of opaque systems - from logistics to architecture, or from crowd control to robot collectives. As zootechnologies, swarms offer performative, synthetic, and approximate solutions in cases where analytical approaches are doomed to fail.

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