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Rangelands are places where humans graze animals for meat and fiber. At their simplest, they can be pictured as expanses of grassy woodlands or grasslands with shrubs, managed by pastoralists who graze animals on them. They are a foreign world to your average city slicker, but rangelands supply an important proportion of the world’s protein (especially to the developing world). They have also experienced significant degradation over many decades.
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Walker, B., Salt, D. (2012). Thresholds on the Range:. In: Resilience Practice. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-231-0_2
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