Essays about: "transhumance"

Found 4 essays containing the word transhumance.

  1. 1. Spatial Justice and Large-Scale Land Transformation : A study of spatial justice for transhumant pastoralists in the case of the Great Green Wall

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Miljöförändring

    Author : Femke Spiegelenberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Great Green Wall; Sahel; Spatial Justice; Transhumant pastoralism;

    Abstract : Transhumant pastoralist are highly dependent on their landscape. Their economic, cultural and political systems are directly shaped by and shaping space. The nomadic nature of transhumant pastoralists have therefore created unique pastoral socio-spatial relations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Women of the Fäbod : An Ethnological Study of the Swedish Fäbod Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap

    Author : Stina Gray; [2019]
    Keywords : Womanhood; transhumance; gender; initiation; rite of passage; nordic; Genus; fäbod; fäbodkultur; initiationsrit; fäbodväsen;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of womanhood in relation to the Swedish fäbod culture at the turn of the 20th century. The study is based upon a questionnaire from 1928 and the material is collected from the archives at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Uppsala. READ MORE

  4. 3. Framtidsutsikter för pastoralism på Kenyanska betesmarker

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Zebastian Cederblad; [2019]
    Keywords : Kenya; ; kenyanska betesmarker; pastoralism; zebu; boskap; landfragmentering; klimatförändringar;

    Abstract : Pastoralism är ett system där majoriteten av en individs inkomst och mat kommer från boskapsdjur. Boskapsdjurens huvudsakliga matkälla är naturligt växande bete. Pastoralism kan delas in i tre huvudtyper; nomadisk, transhuman och stillasittande. I Kenya finns variationer av alla tre. READ MORE

  5. 4. The use of a landscape perspective to assess the nature value of a traditionally managed landscape : an assessment of indicators to estimate the high nature value of transhumance summer grazing practices in Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Parbakhar Poudel; [2010]
    Keywords : traditional land use practices ; biodiversity; high nature value; summer grazing; geographic information system; Sweden;

    Abstract : Loss of biodiversity related with diminishing traditional land use practice has raised global concern. Since, traditional land use practices is socio-economically unviable, many incentive based conservation approaches have emerged in order to encourage practitioners to continue with their practices. READ MORE