Journal Article
| 2003
Pastoral ecosystems and the issue of scale
in Ambio vol. 32 no. 2 pp. 113-117
This paper uses examples from Kenya and the Sudan to argue that the scale at which we pitch our analysis when trying to identify the basic properties of pastoral ecosystems may not be appropriate when it comes to recommending policy measures to secure the continued viability of pastoral herding. It raise the issue of how we most fruitfully define and delimit ecological and social systems in different local settings and questions conventional approaches to community-based natural resource management.
