Dr Ben Campbell ben.campbell@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Struggles over Sustainability in Nepal
Campbell, Ben
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Abstract
Nepal’s impoverished mountain communities benefited after the 1950s through Swiss-style cheese-making from yak-cow hybrids. This relieved the drop in economic opportunities after Chinese occupation of Tibet. Income-generating transhumant dairy pastoralism subsequently suffered from state environmental management by national parks in the 1970s. This prioritised ‘wild’ landscape in accordance with international trends and tourism values, instead of the biological and cultural diversity of the traditional landscape. The impractical nature–culture binarism of nature protection eventually yielded to less misanthropic policy regimes involving buffer zones in the late 1990s. In the 2010s, climate change agendas have revived the binary protectionist approach, at the expense of local land use practices, due to the perceived need to protect eco-system services of the mountainsides in the era of the Anthropocene. This paper tracks oscillations of national and international policy, and the abilities of indigenous people to participate in transitioning to more sustainable landscapes.
Citation
Campbell, B. (2018). Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Struggles over Sustainability in Nepal. Landscape Research, 43(8), 1056-1067. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1503241
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Mar 13, 2018 |
| Online Publication Date | Sep 11, 2018 |
| Publication Date | Nov 17, 2018 |
| Deposit Date | Mar 13, 2018 |
| Publicly Available Date | Mar 11, 2020 |
| Journal | Landscape Research |
| Print ISSN | 0142-6397 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-9710 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1056-1067 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1503241 |
| Keywords | Himalayas, transhumance, yak herding, migration, national parks |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Landscape Research on 11 Sep 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01426397.2018.1503241
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