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标题：Managing Rangeland as a Complex System: How Government Interventions Decouple Social Systems from Ecological Systems
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作者：Wenjun Li ; Yanbo Li
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：The complexity of natural resource management is increasingly recognized and requires adaptive governance atmultiple levels. It is particularly significant to explore the impacts of government interventions on the management practices oflocal communities and on target social-ecological systems. The Inner Mongolian rangeland was traditionally managed byindigenous people using their own institutions that were adapted to the highly variable local climate and were able to maintainthe resilience of the social-ecological system for more than 1000 years. However, external interventions have significantlyaffected the rangeland social-ecological system in recent decades. In this paper, using livestock breed improvement as an example,we track government interventions from the traditional era through the collective period to the present market economy periodbased on a review of historical documents and case studies. Using the concept of social-ecological system resilience, we diagnosethe impacts of interventions on livestock breed management in the rangeland social-ecological system, and discuss how theseinterventions occur. We found that government interventions in livestock breeding have gradually decoupled the pastoral societyfrom its supporting ecological system. During this process, external powers have increasingly displaced the local communityin defining the nature of rangeland management. Power asymmetry and discourse have contributed to this displacement
关键词：decoupling; Inner Mongolia; rangeland management; resilience; social-ecological system