书目名称 | Pastoral practices in High Asia |
副标题 | Agency of ‘developme |
编辑 | Hermann Kreutzmann |
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概述 | Modern approaches to pastoral practices in Asia.Written by international experts in the field.Superbly illustrated |
丛书名称 | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research |
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描述 | .In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and processing concepts. .New insights into other aspects of pastoralism such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization theory-led development activities canbe observed. Higher inputs from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of ‘modern‘ pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernizati |
出版日期 | Book 2012 |
关键词 | Aridity; Asia; Climate change; Pastoralism; Resettlement; Rural |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3846-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9709-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-3846-1Series ISSN 1879-7180 Series E-ISSN 1879-7199 |
issn_series | 1879-7180 |
copyright | Springer Netherlands 2012 |