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Rangeland Systems volume edited by David D. Briske receives 500,000 chapter downloads since publication in April 2017

August 20, 2021 by Carrie Baker

Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them.

This volume contains 17 chapters organized around three major themes. The first theme summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second theme addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third theme assesses several major challenges confronting global rangelands in the 21st century.

The book is intended to compliment applied range management textbooks by describing the conceptual foundation on which the rangeland profession is based. It is written to be accessible to a broad audience, including ecosystem managers, educators, students and policy makers. The content is founded on the collective experience, knowledge and commitment of 80 authors who have worked in rangelands throughout the world. Their collective contributions indicate that a more comprehensive framework is necessary to address the complex challenges confronting global rangelands.

Rangelands represent adaptive social-ecological systems, in which societal values, organizations and capacities are of equal importance to, and interact with, those of ecological processes. A more comprehensive framework for rangeland systems will enable management agencies, and educational, research and policy making organizations to more effectively assess complex problems and develop appropriate solutions.

This book is open access and can be downloaded by anyone who is interested in learning more about global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them.

Download here

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