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Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Cynthia M. Beall

Online Book: Nomads of Western Tibet
[University of California Press, 1990.][Under Repair]

Bailey J.F., B. Healy, H. Jianlin, L. Sherchang, S.L. Pradhan, T. Tsendsuren, J.M. Foggin, C. Gaillard, D. Steane, I. Zakharov and D.G. Bradley

Genetic variation of mitochondrial DNA within domestic yak populations.

[Pp 181-189 in Jianlin H., C. Richard, O. Hannotte, C. McVeigh and J.E.O. Rege (eds). 2002. Yak productions in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). 572 pp.] (.pdf)

Banks, Tony

Property Rights Reform in Rangeland China: Dilemmas on the Road to the Household Ranch (.pdf)

[World Development. 31(12): 2129-2142. 2003.]

Banks, Tony, Camille Richard, Li Ping, and Yan Zhaoli

Barrett, Christopher B.

Rural Poverty Dynamics: Development Policy Implications (.pdf)

[2003.]

Bauer, Ken

Development and the Enclosure Movement in Pastoral Tibet Since the 1980s (.pdf)

[Nomadic Peoples.]

Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet (.pdf)

[Journal of Political Ecology, 13, 2006.]

Beall, Cynthia M. , Melvyn C. Goldstein, & The Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences

Bedunah, Donald J. & Richard B. Harris
Past, Present & Future: Rangelands in China (.pdf)
[Rangelands 24(4):17-22, 2002.]
Cincotta, Richard P., Peter J. Van Soest, James B. Robertson, Cynthia M. Beall, and Melvyn C. Goldstein
Ekvall, Robert B.
Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border
[Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.]

Foggin, J.M.

Biodiversity protection and the search for sustainability in Tibetan plateau grasslands. [PhD   

dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 397 pp. 2000.]

Building new partnerships for conservation and sustainable development in the Tibetan Plateau region: Recent experiences in the Yangtze River headwaters. (.pdf)

[Plenary paper presented at the First International Conference on Environment & Development in West China, sponsored by the China Association of Science & Technology (CAST), held in Xian, China, in May 2004. Xining, China: Plateau Perspectives.]

Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: The role of national policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders, Qinghai Province, China. (.pdf)

[Mountain Research and Development 28(1): 26-31.]

Foggin, J.M., and A.T. Smith

Rangeland utilization and biodiversity on the alpine grasslands of Qinghai Province, People's

Republic of China; The use of regional and county-level datasets.

Pp. 247-258 in BWG/CCICED,

Conserving China's Biodiversity (II). Beijing, China: China Environmental Science Press. 2001.]

Foggina, Peter M., Marion E. Torrance, Drashi Dorjec, Wenzha Xuric, J. Marc Foggin and Jane Torrance

Assessment of the Health Status and Risk Factors of Kham Tibetan Pastoralists in the Alpine Grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[Social Science and Medicine. 63 (2006): 2512–2532.]

Fox, Joseph L., Per Mathiesen, Drolma Yangzom, Marius W. Næss, & Xu Binrong

Fox, Joseph L., Ciren Yangzong, Gesang Dunzhu, Tsechoe Dorji & Camille Richard

Biodiversity Conservation and Pastoralism in the Tibetan Chang Tang; coexistence or conflict? (.pdf) [In press: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies.]

Fox, Joseph L., Kelsang Dhondup & Tsechoe Dorji

Tibetan antelope and new rangeland management activities in and around the Aru Basin, Chang Tang Nature Reserve (.pdf)                                                                                                                                       [Report to the Tibet Autonomous Region Forestry Bureau. 5 February 2008. pp.1-13.]

Fox, Joseph L. & Tsechoe Dorji

Tibetan Antelope Traditional Hunting, its Relation to Antelope Migration, and its Rapid Transformation in the Western Chang Tang Nature Reserve (.pdf)

[University of Tromso & Tibet University]

Gao, Y.H., P. Luo, N. Wu, H. Chen and G.X. Wang

Grazing Intensity Impacts on Carbon Sequestration in an Alpine Meadow on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. 3(6): 642-647. 2007.]

Gelek, Lobsang (Guest editor)

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Nomads of Golok, a Report
[Manuscript, 1996.]

Tibetan Speaking Agro-Pastoralists of Limi: A Cultural Ecology Overview of High Altitude Adaptation in the Northwest Himalaya (.pdf)
[Objets Et Mondes. 14(4): 259-286, 1974.]

A Report on Limi Panchayat, Humla District, Karnali Zone (.pdf)
[Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Vol 2 No 2: 89-101, 1975.]

Change, Conflict and Continuity Among a Community of Nomadic Pastoralists (.pdf)

[Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst & Co., 1994. pp.76-111.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Cynthia M. Beall

Change and Continuity in Nomadic Pastoralism on the Western Tibetan Plateau
[Nomadic Peoples. 28: 105-23, 1991.]

The Remote World of Tibet's Nomads
[National Geographic Magazine. June, 1989.]

The Impact of China's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet
[Asian Survey. 29(6): 619-41, 1989.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C., Cynthia M. Beall, and Richard P. Cincotta

Traditional Nomadic Pastoralism and Ecological Conservation on Tibet's Northern Plateau
[National Geographic Research. 6(2): 139-56, 1990.]

Harris, Richard

Market forces in Northwest China: Ecological constraints, government policies, and the concept of wealth (.pdf)  [2004 Mansfield Conference, The University of Montana, Missoula]

Wildlife Conservation on the Tibetan Plateau: Part of "Development?or "Anti-Development?
[ms. Sustainable Development in Tibet: Roundtable Symposium, May 8, 2001, Brandeis University.]

Harris, Richard & David H. Pletscher

Incentives Toward Conservation of Argali Ovis Ammon: A Case Study of Trophy Hunting in Western China (.pdf)
[Oryx. 36 (4): 2002.]

Hongyan, Xie, Camille Richard, Xu Jianchu and Wang Jianhua

Collective Management of Improved Forage in Zhongdian County, Deqin, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest Yunnan, P.R. China (.pdf)

[2002.]

Hongyuan, Song

Policy Review and Formulation in China's GIPS: Poverty Reduction in Grassland Improvement Policy [Research Center for Rural Economy. ADB TA NO. 4308-PRC.]

Horlemann, Bianca

Modernization Efforts in Golog: A Chronicle, 1970-2000 (.pdf)
[In Amdo Tibetans in Transition: Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era. Edited by Toni Huber. 2: 241-67, 2002.]

Huber, Toni

Antelope Hunting in Northern Tibet: Cultural Adaptations to Wildlife Behaviour (.pdf)
[Memoire della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Milano. Edited by A. Boesi and F. Cardi: 5-17, 2004.]

Territorial Control by "Sealing": A Religio-Political Practice in Tibet (.pdf)
[ZAS 33. 2004.]

Traditional Environmental Protectionism in Tibet
[The Tibet Journal. 1991.]

Green Tibetans: A Brief Social History (.pdf)
[Tibetan Culture in the Diaspora. Edited by F. J. Korom: 103-119, 1997.]

The Chase and the Dharma: The Legal Protection of Wild animals in Pre-modern Tibet (.pdf)
[Wild Animals in Asia. Cultural Prespectives. Edited by John Knight: 36-55, 2004.]

SEE: Rinzin Thargyal below

Huber, Toni & Poul Pederson

Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies: The Case of Tibet (.pdf)
[Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, new series 3,3: 577-598, 1997.]

Katzner, T.E., C.H. Lai, J.D. Gardiner, J.M. Foggin, D. Pearson and A.T. Smith

Adjacent nesting by Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus and Himalayan Griffon Vulture Gyps
  himalayensis
on the Tibetan Plateau, China.
(.pdf)

[ Forktail 20: 94-96. 2004.]

Klein, Julia A., John Harte and Xin-Quan Zhao

Experimental Warming, Not Grazing, Decreases Rangeland Quality on Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[Ecological Applications. 17(2): 541-557. 2007.]

Lai, H.H.

China's Western Development Program: It's Rationale, Implementation and Prospects (.pdf)

[Modern China. 28(4): 432-466. 2002.]

Levine, Nancy

Reconstructing Tradition: Persistence and Change in Golog Social Structure
[Manuscript.]

Manderscheid, Angela

Decline and Re-emergence of Nomadism: Tibetan Pastoralists Revive a Nomadic Way of Life and Production
[GeoJournal. 53: 173-82, 2001.]

Revival of a Nomadic Lifestyle: A Survival Strategy For Dzam Thang's Pastoralists
[Amdo Tibetans in Transition: Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era. Edited by Toni Huber. 2: 271-89, 2002.]

The Black Tent in Its Easternmost Distribution: The Case of the Tibetan Plateau
[Mountain Research and Development. 21(2): 154-60, 2001.]

McVeigh, Colleen

Himalayan Herding is Alive and Well: The Economics of Pastoralism in Langtang Valley (.pdf)

[Nomadic Peoples. 8(2): 109-124. 2004.]

Miller, Daniel

Snowstorms, Restocking, and Settling Nomads on the Tibetan Plateau in Western China
[Forthcoming In "Restocking: Current Perspectives". Edited by C. Heffernan. England: Reading University.]

Tibetan Pastoralism: Hard Times on the Plateau

[TSIN October 1998.]

Restocking and Pastoral Development Among Tibetan Nomads After a Severe Winter On The Tibetan Plateau In Western China (.pdf)
[China Development Brief Vol. 1 No. 2: 1998.]

Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau Rangelands in Western China Part Two: Pastoral Production Practices (.pdf)
[Rangelands. 21(1): 16-19, 1999.]

Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau Rangelands in Western China -- Part Three: Pastoral Development and Future Challenges (.pdf)
[Rangelands 21(2): 17-20, 1999.]

Herders of Forty Centuries: Nomads of Tibetan Rangelands In Western China (.pdf)
[VIth International Rangeland Congress Proceedings Vol. 1: 402-403, 1999.]

Tough Times for Tibetan nomads in Western China: Traditional Nomadic Pastoralism
[Nomadic Peoples. 4(1): 83-109, 2000.]

Looking Back to Move Ahead: Integrating Indigenous Nomadic Knowledge into the Modern Range Profession in China (.pdf)
[Presentation at the Society for Range Management's Annual Meeting: 2001.]

Poverty Among Tibetan Nomads in Western China: Profiles of Poverty and Strategies for Poverty Reduction
[Paper Prepared for the Tibet Development Symposium: Brandeis University. May 4-6, 2001.]

The Importance of China's Nomads
[Rangelands. 24(1): 22-24, 2002.]

Home on the Range: The Demise of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism?
[Manuscript]

Arid Land Development in China: Crisis on the Steppes (.pdf)
[Manuscript]

Tibet Environmental Analysis for USAID Program (.pdf)

[2003.]

The World of Tibetan Nomads (.pdf)

[2007.]

Næss, Marius W., Dondrup Lhagyal, Drolma Yangzom, Per Mathiesen, Joseph L. Fox, & Bård J. Bårdsen

Nomadic Pastoralism in the Aru Basin of Tibet's Chang Tang (.pdf)
[Rangifer. Special Issue 15: 39-46, 2004.]

Nori, Michele

Hoofs on the Roof: Pastoral livelihood on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The case of Chengduo county, Yushu prefecture. (.pdf)
[ASIA: 2004.]

Oi, J.C.

The Decades of Rural Reform in China: An Overview and Assessment (.pdf)

[The China Quarterly. 159: 616-628. 1999.]

Pirie, Fernanda

Feuding, Mediation and the Negotiation of Authority among the Nomads of Eastern Tibet (.pdf)
[Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2005.]

Segmentation within the State: The Reconfiguration of Tibetan Tribes in China's Reform Period (.pdf)

[Nomadic Peoples. Vol. 9 N. 1:83-102, 2005.]

Legal Complexity on the Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[Journal of Legal Pluralism. Vol. 53/54: 77-100, 2006.]

Richard, Camille, Yan Zhaoli, and Du Guozhan

Salik, Jan, Yang Yongping, and Anthony Amend

Tibetan land use and change near Khawa Karpo, Eastern Himalayas (.pdf)

[Economic Biology, 59 (4) pp. 312-325, 2005.]

Schaller, G.B. & Liu Wulin

Distribution, Status, and Conservation of Wild Yak (.pdf)

[Biological Conservation. 76(1): 1-8. 1996.]

Sheehey, Dennis P., Daniel Miller and Douglas A. Johnson

Transformation of Traditional Pastoral Livestock Systems on the Tibetan Steppe (.pdf)

[Secheresse. 17(1-2): 142-151. 2006.]

Shikui, Dong, Long Ruijun, Hu Zizhi, Ding Luming and Xu Meiyong

Influence of Grazing Intensity on Performance of Perennial Grass Mixtures in the Alpine Region of the Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 46: 175-183. 2003.]

Shikui, Dong, Ruijun Long and Muyi Kang

Milking Performance of China Yak (Bos grunniens): A Preliminary Report (.pdf)

[African Journal of Agricultural Research. 2(3): 52-57. 2007.]

Skjervold, Marius & Anders Bille Johnsrud

The Balance between Yaks and Pastures and its Implications for the Local Nomadic Families: A case study from Long Deng Township, Sichuan Province, China
[MA Thesis, Agricultural University of Norway, Dec. 2003.]

Strategic Services, Office of

Political Dynamics of China's Northwest (.pdf)

[1944.]

Tashi, Nyima, Luo Xugang, Yu Shunxiang and Geoff Judson

A Survey of the Mineral Status of Livestock in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China (.pdf)

[2005.]

Thargyal, Rinzin (edited by Toni Huber)

Woo,Wing Thye, Li Shi, Yue Ximing, Harry Wu and Xu Xinpeng

The Poverty Challenge for China in the New Millennium (.pdf)

[2004.]

Wu, Ning

Man's Impacts on Biodiversity in Tibetan Nomadic Societies of Western Sichuan

Indigenous Knowledge of Yak Breeding and Cross-breeding Among Nomads in Western Sichuan, 

China
[Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor. 6(1): 7-9, 1998.]

Indigenous Knowledge of Sustainable Approaches for the Maintenance of Biodiversity in Nomadic Society: Experiences from the Eastern Tibetan Plateau
[Die Erde. 128: 67-80, 1997.]

Wu, Ning & Camille Richard

The Privatization Process of Rangeland and its Impacts on the Pastoral Dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: The Case of Western Sichuan, China
[Vlth International Rangeland Congress Proceedings. 1: 14-21.]

Wu, Ning and Yan Zhaoli

Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability on the Tibetan Plateau: Dilemmas on the Road to Pastoral Reform (.pdf)
[Band 56: 2-14, 2002.]

Xue, B. , X. Q. Zhao and Y. S. Zhang

Seasonal Changes in Weight and Body Composition of Yak Grazing on Alpine-meadow
Grassland in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China
(.pdf)

[American Society of Animal Science. 83: 1908-1913. 2005.]

Yeh, Emily T.

Tibetan Range Wars: Spatial Politics and Authority on the Grasslands of Amdo (.pdf)

[Development and Change Vol. 34 N. 3: 499-523, 2003.]

Property Relations in Tibet Since Decollectivization and the Question of Fuzziness (.pdf)

[Conservation and Society, 2,1,: 107-131, 2004.]

Zhaoli, Yan, L. Guangrong and Wu Ning

A Probe into the Pastoral Production System in Hongyuan, Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)
[Yak Production in The Central Asian Highlands: Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Yak Held in Lhasa, P.R. China, September 4-9, 2000.]

Zhaoli, Yan, Wu Ning, Yeshi Dorji and Ru Jia

A Review of Rangeland Privatisation and its Implications in the Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[Nomadic Peoples. 9: 31-51. 2005.]

Zhaoli, Yan and Wu Ning

Rangeland Privatization and Its Impacts on the Zoige Wetlands on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau (.pdf)

[Journal of Mountain Science. 2(2): 105-115. 2005.]