Rangelands along the Silk Road
In: Environmental Research Advances
Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Scope, Purpose and Readership -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Part I. Transformations, Transitions, Challenges -- Chapter 1 -- Transformative Adaptation Under Climate and Global Change Along the Silk Road: Challenges and Potentials -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Effects on Vegetation -- 3. The Desertification Paradigm and Its Counterpart -- 3.1. The Desertification Paradigm -- 3.2. Indirect Anthropogenic Drivers of Change -- 4. Climate Change Adaptation -- 5. Transformative Adaptation - Is It the Answer? -- 5.1. Impacts versus Vulnerability Approach -- 5.2. What Does Adaptation Mean? -- 6. A Paradigm Shift from Resource Sufficiency to Functional Integrity -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Rangeland and Grassland in the Region of Former Soviet Union: Future Implications for Silk Road Countries -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Vegetation of Central Asia -- 2.1. Four Main Groups of Ecosystems -- 2.1.1. The Adyr Zone (Lowlands and Foothills) -- 2.1.2. The Tau Zone (Mid-Mountain Zone) -- 2.1.3. The Yailau Zone (High Mountain Zone) -- 3. Utilization of the Three Zones -- 4. Impact of Climate Change on Vegetation along the Silk Road -- 4.1. Changes in Temperature and Precipitation -- 4.2. Ecological Effects of Recent Climate Change -- 4.3. Reversing the Ecological Effects of Climate Change -- 5. Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics and the Response of Vegetation to Hydro-Climatic Changes in Central Asia -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Conservation and Development of Medicinal Plants of Relevant Territory Along the Silk Road -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The strategic thinking and strategic position of Medicinal plants resources along the Silk Road -- 2.1. Medicinal Plants as Items of Trade