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The Opportunity Costs of Conserving Pasture Resources for Mobile Pastoralists in the Greater Caucasus

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  • R. Neudert
  • J. Etzold
  • F. M�nzner
  • M. Manthey
  • S. Busse

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Ecological damage caused by unadjusted and raised stocking rates are persistent problems in grazed mountain areas in developing countries, including in post-Soviet Asia. An assessment of this degradation is difficult due to site heterogeneity and insufficient knowledge about the grazing systems. We present an integrated appraisal of the potential stocking rates of sites based on physical site properties. We combine these ecological and agrarian analyses with the economic calculation of opportunity costs in scenarios. We apply this approach to a high mountain region in the eastern Greater Caucasus in Azerbaijan, which provides valuable ecosystem services and is heavily used as summer pasture by mobile pastoralists. Hence, an impact assessment of reducing the legal prescriptions of stocking rates or the calculation of payments for ecosystem services is possible. Our results show that stocking rates on many pastures are spatially unadjusted and destocking measures need to be implemented in order to preserve ecosystem services. We also discuss different distribution possibilities of the opportunity costs.

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  • R. Neudert & J. Etzold & F. M�nzner & M. Manthey & S. Busse, 2013. "The Opportunity Costs of Conserving Pasture Resources for Mobile Pastoralists in the Greater Caucasus," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(4), pages 499-522, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:38:y:2013:i:4:p:499-522
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.728204
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    1. Dean, G. & Rivera-Ferre, M.G. & Rosas-Casals, Marti & Lopez-i-Gelats, F., 2021. "Nature’s contribution to people as a framework for examining socioecological systems: The case of pastoral systems," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 49(C).
    2. Pengyao Qin & Bin Sun & Zengyuan Li & Zhihai Gao & Yifu Li & Ziyu Yan & Ting Gao, 2021. "Estimation of Grassland Carrying Capacity by Applying High Spatiotemporal Remote Sensing Techniques in Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-20, March.

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