Tibetan Nomads

Publications on Tibetan and related Nomads.

Books and Articles

Bai, W. Q.; et al. 

• Analysis of the formation of the causes of grassland degradation in Maduo County. 
  [Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. 13 (7): 823-826. 2002.] (IN CHINESE)

Bailey, J.F., B. Healy, H. Jianlin, L. Sherchand, S.L. Pradhan, et al.

• Genetic variation of mitochondrial DNA within domestic yak populations.
  [Jianlin H., C. Richard, O. Hannotte, C. McVeigh and J.E.O. Rege (eds). 2002. Yak productions in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). 181-189.]

Banks, Tony 

• Property Rights and the Environment in Pastoral China: Evidence from the Field 
  [Development and Change. 32: 714-740. 2001.]
• Property Rights Reform in Rangeland China: Dilemmas on the Road to the Household Ranch
  [World Development. 31(12): 2129-2142. 2003.]

Banks, Tony, Camille Richard, Li Ping, and Yan Zhaoli

• Community-Based Grassland Management in Western China: Rationale, Pilot Project Experience, and Policy Implications
  [Mountain Research and Development. 23(2): 132-140, 2003.]

Barrett, Christopher B.

• Rural Poverty Dynamics: Development Policy Implications [2003.]

Bauer, Kenneth

• Development and the Enclosure Movement in Pastoral Tibet Since the 1980s.
  [Nomadic Peoples, 9(1 &2):53-81. 2005. (In English).]
• Development and the Enclosure Movement in Pastoral Tibet Since the 1980s.
  [Nomadic Peoples, 9(1 &2):53-81.2005. (In Chinese).]
• Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet.
  [Journal of Political Ecology, 13, 2006.]
• Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet.
  [JIATS (Journal of the International Association of Tibet Studies). Special Issue. Guest eds. Ken Bauer, Geoff Childs, Andrew Fischer, and Daniel Winkler. "In the Shadow of the Leaping Dragon: Demography, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan Areas." Issue 4. December 2008]
• The cultural ecology of yak production in Dolpo, West Nepal.
  [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Bauer, Kenneth and Geoff Childs

• Demographics, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan Areas.
  [JIATS (Journal of the International Association of Tibet Studies), no. 4 (December 2008), THL #T5568, 8 pp]

Bauer, Kenneth and Yonten Nyima

• Laws and Regulations Impacting the Enclosure Movement on the Tibetan Plateau of China.
  [Himalaya. XXX (1-2): 23-39, 2010]

Beimatsho

• Population, Pasture Pressure, and School Education: Case Studies from Nag chu, TAR, PRC.
  [JIATS (Journal of the International Association of Tibet Studies). Special Issue. Guest eds. Ken Bauer, Geoff Childs, Andrew Fischer, and Daniel Winkler. "In the Shadow of the Leaping Dragon: Demography, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan Areas." Issue 4. December 2008]

Beall, Cynthia M. and Melvyn C. Goldstein

• Dietary Seasonality among Tibetan Nomads
  [Research & Exploration 9(4): 477-479]
• Mongolian Nomads
  [National Geographic Magazine: May 1993]
• High Prevalence of Excess Fat and Central Fat Patterning Among Mongolian Pastoral Nomads
  [American Journal of Human Biology 4(6): 747-756. 1992]
• The Changing World of Mongolia's Nomads
  [University of California Press. 1994]

Beall, Cynthia M., Melvyn C. Goldstein, and The Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences

• Hemoglobin Concentration of Pastoral Nomads Permanently Resident at 4,850-5,450 Meters in Tibet
  [AJPA (Journal of the International Association of Tibet Studies). 73: 433-439, 1987.]

Bedunah, Donald J. and Richard B. Harris

• Past, Present & Future: Rangelands in China
  [Rangelands 24(4):17-22, 2002.]

Breivik, Irene

• The Political Ecology of Grassland Conservation in Qinghai Provence.
  [Thesis, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. 2007]

Brower, B. and A. Dennis

• Yak grazing and forest dynamics in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
  [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development.]

Buffetrille, Katia

• A controversy on vegetarianism
  [In Roberto Vitali (ed.) Trails of the Tibetan Tradition, Papers for Elliot Sperling. Dharamsala, Amye Machen Institute. 2014: 113-128]

Cai, Ga, H. A., and Z. Tang

• Yushu Zhou dongchongziacao ziyuan xianzhuang ji guanli duice (.pdf) [Current status of catepillar fungus resources and the management strategy in Jekundo.]
  [Qinghai Journal of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences (Qinghai Xumu Xhouyi Zazhi) 35(4): 54.]

Cencetti, Elisa

• Tibetan Plateau Grassland Protection: Tibetan Herders' Ecological Conceptions Versus State Policies
  [Himalaya. XXX (1-2): 39-51, 2010.]

Cerny, Astrid

• Going Where the Grass is Greener: China Kazaks and the Oralman immigration policy in Kazakhstan
  [Pastorialism. 1(2). 2010]

Chang, D. H. S.

• The Vegetation Zonation of the Tibetan Plateau
  [Mountain Research and Development. 1 (1): 29-48. 1981.Access restricted due to license; may be available at JSTOR site. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3672945.]

Cheng, Guodong & Wu, Tonghua

• Responses of Permafrost to Climate Change and Their Environmental Significance, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
  [Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, June 2007]

Chos-bstan-rgyal

• Following the Herds: Rhythms of Tibetan Pastoral Life in Amdo
  (www.plateauculture.org/writing/following-herds-rhythms-tibetan-pastoral-life-mdo)
  [Asian Highlands Perspectives, 32(2014): 1-212]

Chu, Duo; Lu, Lixin; and Zhang, Tingjun.

• Sensitivity of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Seasonal and Interannual Climate Conditions in the Lhasa Area, Tibetan Plateau, China.
  [Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research Journal. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. 39(4):635-641. (Nov., 2007).]

Cincotta, Richard P.; Soest, Van; J., Peter; Robertson, James B.; Beall, Cynthia M.; and Goldstein, Melvyn C.

• Foraging Ecology of Livestock on the Tibetan Changtang: A Comparison of Three Adjacent Grazing Areas
  [Arctic and Alpine Research. 23(2): 149-61, 1991.]

Ciren Yangzong

• The Household Responsibility Contract System and the Question of Grassland Protection
  [Master Thesis. University of Tromso. 2006]

Clarke, Graham E.

• Socio-Economic Change and the Environment in a Pastoral Area of Lhasa Municipality
  [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 97-119]
• Development, Society and Environment in Tibet
  [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 1-45]
• Aspects of the Social Organisation of Tibetan Pastoral Communities
  [NARITA 1992. Reprinted from: Tibetan Studies, Proceedings of the 5th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, NARITA 1989.]

Costello, Susan

• The Flow of Wealth in Golok Pastoralist Society: Towards an Assessment of Local Financial Resources for Economic Development
  [Barnett, Robert; Schwartz, Ronald (eds.). Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS), 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities. Access restricted due to license; may be available at brillonline site. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/9789047428237. DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004155220.i-458.17.]

Craig, Sienna

• Pasture Management, Indigenous Veterinary Care and the role of the Horse in Mustang, Nepal
  [Daniel J. Miller and Sienna Craig (eds.). Rangelands and Pastoral Development in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. Proceedings of a Regional Experts' Meeting. Kathmandu, Nepal. 1996.]

Dasgupta, Shreya

• Overpopulation and grazing imperils nomadic lifestyle and wildlife in Ladakh
  [Mongabay.com, Environmental News, August 23, 2013]

Davidson, Grant; Behnke, R. H.; and Kerven, C.

• Implications of Rangeland Enclosure Policy on the Tibetan Plateau
  [IHDP, Update 2: 59-62. 2008.]

Dawa, Tsering and Farrington, John D.

• Conflict Between Nomadic Herders and Brown Bears in the Byang Thang Region of Tibet
  [JIATS, no. 4 (December 2008), THL #T5557, 42 pp.]

Dbang 'dus sgrol ma

• The Ecological Migration Project: The Case of Ca Chog Mtsho Sngon (Qinghai) Province, China
  [Asian Highlands Perspectives 18: Environmental Issues Facing Tibetan Pastoral Communities. 2012]

Dbang 'dus sgrol ma; Dkon mchog dge legs; et al

• Environmental Issues Facing Tibetan Pastoral Communities
  [CK Stuart and G Roche, eds. Asian Highlands Perspectives 18. 2012]

Dideron, Sylvie; Beerling, Marie-Louise

• The Socioeconomic Situation of Herders in Guoluo Prefecture
  [Wageningen, N.;Wenjun, S. (ed.), The Living Plateau: Changing Lives of Herders in Qinghai - Concluding Seminar of Qinghai Livestock Development Project. 2001. ISBN: 92-9115-376-1. Access restricted due to license; may be available at ICIMOD site.]

Dong, Shikui;Long, Ruijun; Hu Zizhi; Ding Luming; and Xi Meiyong

• Influence of Grazing Intensity on Performance of Perennial Grass Mixtures in the Alpine Region of theTibetan Plateau.
  [New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 46: 175-183. 2003.]

Dong, Shikui; Long, Ruijun; and Kang, Muyi

• Milking Performance of China Yak (Bos grunniens): A Preliminary Report.
  [African Journal of Agricultural Research. 2(3): 52-57. 2007.]

Droma, Tsamcho

• The Changes of the Social Status of Tibetan Women in Nomadic Area: A Survey on the Women in Nyerong County
  [Tibetan Studies, pp. 111-120, 2013]

Du, Fachun

• Ecological Resettlement for Tibetan Herder in the Sanjiangyuan: A Case study in Madoi County of Qinghai.
  [Nomadic Peoples 16(1):116-133, 2012]
• A Study on the Rationale and Consequences of Ecological Migration in the Sanjiangyuan of the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau.
  [Canadian Diversity 8(1): 27-31, 2011]

Ekvall, Robert B

• Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border
  [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.]

• Demographic Aspects of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism
  [Population Growth: Anthropological Implications by Brian Spooner, (1972), pp. 269-285.]

• Some Differences in Tibetan land tenure and utilization
  [Sinologica. 4(1): 39-48. 1956.] \

• The High-Pasturage ones of Tibet also grow old
  [Proceedings of the American Philisophical Society, 124 (6): 42 9-437. December 1980.]

Feng, Lu

• Change Four Dimensions of Civilization to Construct Eco-civilization.
  [Selection of Presentations from the "Human Dimensions of Ecological Conservation in the Tibetan Plateau Region" International Symposium. Xining, Qinghai, China. 21-26 August, 2011. pp 90-91.]

Fischer, Andrew

• Subsistence and Rural Livelihood Strategies in Tibet Under Rapid Economic and Social Transition.
  [JIATS, no. 4 (December 2008), THL #T5569, 49 pp.]

Foggin, J.M.

• Biodiversity protection and the search for sustainability in Tibetan plateau grasslands.
  [PhD dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 397 pp 2000.]

• Building new partnerships for conservation and sustainable development in the Tibetan Plateau region: Recent experiences in the Yangtze River headwaters. [Plenary paper presented at the First International Conference on Environment & Development in West China, sponsored by the China Association of Science & Technology (CAST), held in Xian, China, in May 2004. Xining, China: Plateau Perspectives.]

• Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: The role of national policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders, Qinghai Province, China. [Mountain Research and Development 28(1): 26-31.]

• Local Communities and Conservation on the Tibetan Plateau: Two case studies of collaborative management in the Sanjiangyuan region. [Selection of Presentations from the "Human Dimensions of Ecological Conservation in the Tibetan Plateau Region" International Symposium. Xining, Qinghai, China. 21-26 August, 2011. pp 50-54.]

• Another article by J. M. Foggin that may be of interest: Rethinking "Ecological Migration: and the value of cultural continuity: A response to Wang, Song, and Hu. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 40(1): 100-101. doi: 10.1007/s13280-010-0105-05 [Access restricted due to license; may be available via publisher site.]

Foggin, Peter M., Foggin, Marc J., and Torrance, Marion E.

• Accessibility of Healthcare for Pastoralists in the Tibetan Plateau Region: A Case Study from Southern Quinghai Province, China.
  [In Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia Reality and Challenges. Huhua Cao (ed.), Amsterdam University Press, 83-91]

Foggin, J.M., and Smith, A.T.

• Rangeland utilization and biodiversity on the alpine grasslands of Qinghai Province, People's Republic of China; The use of regional and county-level datasets.
  [Pp. 247-258 in BWG/CCICED, Conserving China's Biodiversity (II). Beijing, China: China Environmental Science Press. 2001.] 

Foggin, Peter M.; Torrance, Marion E.; Dorjec, Drashi; Xuric, Wenzha; Foggin, J. Marc; and Torrance, Jane

• Assessment of the Health Status and Risk Factors of Kham Tibetan Pastoralists in the Alpine Grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. [Social Science and Medicine. 63 (2006): 2512–2532.]

Fox, Joseph L.; Mathiesen, Per; Yangzom, Drolma; Næss, Marius W.; and Binrong, Xu

• Modern Wildlife Conservation Initiatives and the Pastoralist/Hunter Nomads of Northwestern Tibet.
  [Rangifer. Special Issue 15: 17-27, 2004.]

Fox, Joseph L.; Yangzong, Ciren; Dhondup, Kelsang; Dorji, Tsechoe; and Richard, Camille

• Biodiversity Conservation and Pastoralism on the Northwest Tibetan Plateau: Coexistence or Conflict? [JIATS, no. 4 (December 2008), THL #T5558, 21 pp]

Fox, Joseph L.; Dhondup, Kelsang; and Dorji, Tsechoe

• Tibetan antelope and new rangeland management activities in and around the Aru Basin, Chang Tang Nature Reserve. [Report to the Tibet Autonomous Region Forestry Bureau. 5 February 2008. pp.1-13.]

Fox, Joseph L. & Dorji, Tsechoe

• Tibetan Antelope Traditional Hunting, its Relation to Antelope Migration, and its Rapid Transformation in the Western Chang Tang Nature Reserve.
  [University of Tromso & Tibet University]

Frauenfeld, Oliver W.; Zhang, Tingjun; and Serreze, Mark C.

• Climate Change and Variability Using European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Renalysis (ERA-40) Temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau.
  [Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, 2005]

Gao, Y.H.; Luo, P.; Wu, N.; Chen, H.; and Wang, G.X.

• Grazing Intensity Impacts on Carbon Sequestration in an Alpine Meadow on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau.
  [Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. 3(6): 642-647. 2007.]

Gao, Y.H.; Luo, P.; Wu, N.; Yi, S.; and Chen, Huai.

• Biomass and Nitrogen Responses to Grazing Intensity in an Alpine Meadow on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau.
  [Polish Journal of Ecology. 55.3. p469-479. 2007]

Gaerrang

• The Alternative to Development on the Tibetan Plateau: Preliminary Research on the Anti-Slaughter Movement 
  [Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines, 21, October 2011, p31-43]

Gasse, F.; Derbyshire, E.

• Environmental changes in the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas - Preface.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 120 (1-2): 1-3.1996. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00030-5. [Access restricted due to license; may be available via publisher site.]

Gelek, Lobsong

• The Washu Serthar: A Nomadic Community of Eastern Tibet.
  [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 47-58]

• Nomads of Tibet: Anthropological Fieldwork Reports from China.
  [Manuscripts, 2002.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

• Change and Continuity in a Nomadic Pastoralism Community in the Tibet Autonomous Region, 1959-2009.
  [H. Kreutzmann (ed.) Pastoral practices in High Asia, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 257-272. 2012]
• Nomads of Golok, a Report. [Manuscript, 1996.]
• Change, Conflict and Continuity Among a Community of Nomadic Pastoralists.
  [Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst & Co., 1994. pp.76-111.]
• A Report on Limi Panchayat, Humla district, Karnali Zone. [Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Vol 2 No 2: 89-101, 1975.]
• Tibetan Speaking Agro-Pastoralists of Limi: A Cultural Ecology Overview of High Altitude Adaptation in the Northwest Himalaya.
  [Objets Et Mondes. 14(4): 259-286, 1974.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Beall, Cynthia M.

• Change and Continuity in Nomadic Pastoralism on the Western Tibetan Plateau. [Nomadic Peoples. 28: 105-23, 1991.]
• Nomads on the Roof of the World, in M. Howard and J. Dunaif-Hattis.
  [Anthropology: Understanding Human Adaptation, 1991.]
• Anthropological Fieldwork in Tibet Studying Nomadic Pastoralists on the Changtang.
  [Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies:. 7(1):1-4, 1987.
• The Changing World of Mongolia's Nomads
  [University of California Press. 1994]
• The Remote World of Tibet's Nomads.
  [National Geographic Magazine, 175(6), June 1989.]
• The Impact of China's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet.
  [Asian Survey. 29(6): 619-41, 1989.]
• Online Book: Nomads of Western Tibet.
  [University of California Press, 1990.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Beall, Cynthia M.; and Cincotta, Richard P.

• Traditional Nomadic Pastoralism and Ecological Conservation on Tibet's Northern Plateau.
  [National Geographic Research. 6(2): 139-56, 1990.]

Gongbuzeren, Yanbo Li, Wenjun Li

• China's Rangeland Management Policy Debates: What Have We Learned?
  [Rangeland Ecology & Management 68: 305-314, 2015.]
• Grassland Laws of the People's Republic of China.
  [china.org.cn. Adopted June 18, 1985.]
  [http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2007-08/20/content_1034338.htm]
• Ammended Grassland Law of the People's Republic of China
  [english.gov.cn. Adopted March 1, 2003.]
  [http://english.gov.cn/laws/2005-10/09/content_75387.htm]
• Several Opinions of the State Council on promoting sound and rapid development of pastoral areas.
  [english.gov.cn. August 9, 2011. In English.]
  [In Chinese: http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2011-08/09/content_1922237.htm]

Gruschke, Andreas

• Nomads Without Pastures? Globalization, Regionalization, and Livelihood Security of Nomads and Former Nomads in Northern Khams.
  [JIATS, no. 4 (December 2008), THL #T5570, 40 pp.]
• Yushu Nomads on the Move: How can the use of pastoralist resources be sustainable?
  [Selection of Presentations from the "Human Dimensions of Ecological Conservation in the Tibetan Plateau Region" International Symposium. Xining, Qinghai, China. 21-26 August, 2011. pp 61-81.]
• From Yak Herders to Yartsa Traders: Tibetan Nomads and New Market Options in Qinghai's Yushu Region.
  [China Tibetology 1: S95-118, March 2011]
• Tibetan Patoralists in Transition. Political Change and State Interventions in Nomad Societies.
  [H. Kreutzmann (ed.) Pastoral practices in High Asia, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 273-289. 2012]
• Nomads and their Market Relations in Eastern Tibet's Yushu Region: The Impact of Caterpillar Fungus.
  [In Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems. Markets and Livelihoods. Jörg Gertel and Richard LeHeron (eds.), Farnham: Ashgate, 211-229, 2011]

Gruschke, Andreas; Breuer, Ingo

• Tibetan Pastoralists and Development Negotiating the Futures of Grassland Livelihoods.
  [Gruschke, Andreas, Breuer, Ingo. 2007. Reichert Verlag Publishing]

Gurung, G.; McVeigh, C.

• Pastoral management and yak rearing in Manang's Nar-Phu valley.
  [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Hafner, Silke; Unteregelsbacher, Sebastian; Seeber, Elke; et al.

• Effect of grazing on carbon stocks and assimilate partitioning in a Tibetan montane pasture revealed by 13CO2 pulse labeling.[Global Change Biology 18: 528-538. 2012]

Han, J.G.; Zhang, Y.J.; Wang, C.J.; Bai, W.M.; Wang, J.R.; Han, G.D.; and Li, L.H.

• Rangeland Degradation and Restoration Management in China [The Rangeland Journal. 30, 233–239. 2008]

Harris, Richard

• Market forces in Northwest China: Ecological constraints, government policies, and the concept of wealth.
  [2004 Mansfield Conference, The University of Montana, Missoula]
• Wildlife Conservation on the Tibetan Plateau: Part of "Development?or "Anti-Development?
  [ms. Sustainable Development in Tibet: Roundtable Symposium, May 8, 2001, Brandeis University.]
• Rangeland Degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
  [Journal of Arid Environments, 10 July 2009, pp. 1-12]

Harris, Richard & Pletscher, David H.

• Incentives Toward Conservation of Argali Ovis Ammon: A Case Study of Trophy Hunting in Western China.
  [Oryx. 36 (4): 2002.]

Ho, Peter

• The Clash Over State and Collective Property: The Making of the Rangeland Law.
  [The China Quarterly. 161: 240-263, 2002.]

Holzner, W. and Kriechbaum, M.

• Pastures in South and Central Tibet (China) II: Probable Causes of Pasture Degradation.
  [Die Bodenkultur. 52(1) 2001. p37-44]

Holzner, W.; Kriechbaum, M.; Ramble, C.; Diemberger, H.

• Integrated ecological studies of pasture problems in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, P. R. China. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development.]

Hongyan, X.; Richard, C.; Jianchu, X.; Jianhua, W.

• Current rangeland management in Zhongdian County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, P. R. China.
  [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Horlemann, Bianca

• Modernization Efforts in Golog: A Chronicle, 1970-2000.
  [In Amdo Tibetans in Transition: Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era. Edited by Toni Huber. 2: 241-67, 2002.]

Huber, Toni

• Antelope Hunting in Northern Tibet: Cultural Adaptations to Wildlife Behaviour.
  [Memoire della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Milano. Edited by A. Boesi and F. Cardi: 5-17, 2004.]
• Territorial Control by "Sealing": A Religio-Political Practice in Tibet.
  [ZAS 33. 2004.]
• Traditional Environmental Protectionism in Tibet
  [The Tibet Journal. 1991.]
• Green Tibetans: A Brief Social History.
  [Tibetan Culture in the Diaspora. Edited by F. J. Korom: 103-119, 1997.]
• The Chase and the Dharma: The Legal Protection of Wild animals in Pre-modern Tibet.
  [Wild Animals in Asia. Cultural Perspectives. Edited by John Knight: 36-55, 2004.]
  SEE: Rinzin Thargyal below
• The Changing Role of Hunting and Wildlife in Pastoral Communities of Northern Tibet/
  [H. Kreutzmann (ed.) Pastoral practices in High Asia, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 195-215. 2012]

Huber, Toni & Pederson, Poul

• Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies: The Case of Tibet.
  [Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, new series 3,3: 577-598, 1997.]

Inamura, Tetsuya

• The Pastoralism in the Andes and the Himalayas.
  [Global Environmental Research 6(1): 85-102 (2002)]

Iselin, Lilian

• Of Horses and Motorbikes: Negotiating Modernities in Pastoral Amdo, Sichuan Province.
  [Journal of International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS) 6: 429-450, 2011.]

Jest, C.; Bonnemaire, J.

• Towards a global approach to the study of yak research and development.
  [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Special Session.]

Jianhua, Wang; Richard, Cammile ; Xie, Hongyan; and Xu Jianchu

• Collective Management of Improved Forage in Zhongdian County, Deqin, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest Yunnan, P.R. China. [2002.]

Jianzhong, Yan; Yingying, Wu; Yili, Zhang

• Adaptation strategies to pasture degradation: Gap between government and local nomads in the eastern Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geographical Sciences 21(6): 1112-1122. doi: 10.1007/s11442-011-0904-z.
  [Access restricted due to institutional license; may be available via publisher site.]

Jin, Chengwu

• Impoverishment Risks Caused by the Ecological Resettlement Project.
  [In Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap. Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu. Luolin Wang and Ling Zhu (eds.), Hackensack, NJ: World Century, 99-124, 2013]

Jun, He

• Globalized Forest-Products: Commodification of Matsutake Mushroom in Tibetan Villages Yunnan Province, Southwest China.
  [The Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IACS) - Survival of the commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities. June 19-23, 2006, Bali, Indonesia.]

Katzner, T.E.; Lai, C.H.; Gardiner, J.D.; Foggin, J.M.; Pearson, D.; and Smith, A.T.

• Adjacent nesting by Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus and Himalayan Griffon Vulture Gyps himalayensis on the Tibetan Plateau, China.
  [Forktail 20: 94-96. 2004.]

Ketola, Tarja

• Developing Tibet into a Special Sustainability Zone in China?
  [Lakkala, Hanna and Vehmas, Jarmo (eds.). 2011. Trends and Future of Sustainable Development. Proceedings of the conference "Trends and Future of Sustainable Development," 9-10 June 2011. Tampere, Finland. FFRC eBook 15/2011. Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku.126-137.]

Klein, Julia A.; Harte, John; and Zhao, Xin-Quan

• Experimental Warming, Not Grazing, Decreases Rangeland Quality on Tibetan Plateau.
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Klein, J.; Xinquan, Zh.; Harte, J.

• Climatic and grazing controls on vegetative aboveground biomass: Implications for the rangelands on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau.
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Klein, Julia A.; Yeh, Emily; Bump, Joseph; Nyima, Yonten; and Hopping, Kelly

• Coordinating Environmental Protection and Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Resource-Dependent Communities: A Case Study from the Tibetan Plateau.
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Kumpula, Timo; Colpaert, Alfred; Qian, Wang; Manderscheid, Angela

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Kreutzman, Hermann

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Lai, H.H.

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Levine, Nancy

• From Nomads to Ranchers: Managing Pasture Among Ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan.
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Li, Chaoliu; Kang, Shichang; Chen, Pengfei; Zhang, Qianggong; et al.

• Personal PM2.5 and indoor CO in nomadic tents using open and chimney biomass stoves on the Tibetan Plateau.
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Li, J.; Cook, E.; D'arrigo, R.; Chen, F.; Gou, X.; Peng, J.; and Huang, J.

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Liu, Xiaodong and Chen, Baode

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Liu, X.; Shao, X.; Wang, L.; Liang, E.; Qin, D.; and Ren, J.

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Lobsang

• The Development of Animal Husbandry on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
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Long Ruijun

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Lu, Qingshui and Zhao, Zhiping

• Eco-immigration Policy for the Degraded Rangeland and Responses of Herd Family in the Source Region of Yellow River - Case Study Based on Household Investigation in Maduo County.
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Lu, Tao; Wu, Ning; and Luo, Peng

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Ma, Rong

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MacMillan, Douglas

• Balancing grassland ecosystem services to ensure long-term sustainability of Tibetan nomadic communities in the Sanjiangyuan Region of Western China.
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Mailisha

• The mechanism of poverty resulting from "ecological migration": From case studies of herders in Minghua District, Sunan Yogor Autonomous County, Gansu Province.
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Manderscheid, Angela

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• Revival of a Nomadic Lifestyle: A Survival Strategy For Dzam Thang's Pastoralists.
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• The Black Tent in Its Easternmost Distribution: The Case of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Manderscheid, Angela; Naukkarinen, Arvo; Ning, Wu; Colpaert, Alfred

• From subsistence to market economy: Responses of Tibetan pastoralists to new economic realities.
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McVeigh, Colleen

• Himalayan Herding is Alive and Well: The Economics of Pastoralism in Langtang Valley.
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Meiping, Wang; Cheng-Zhang, Zhao; Limin, Hua; Squires, Victor

• Land Tenure: Problems, Prospects and Reform.
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Merkle, R.

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Miehe, Georg

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Miehe, Georg;Sabine Miehe, Knut Kaiser, Christopher Reudenbach, Lena Behrendes, La Duo, Frank Schlütz.

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Miller, Daniel

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• Herders of Forty Centuries: Nomads of Tibetan Rangelands In Western China.
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• Looking Back to Move Ahead: Integrating Indigenous Nomadic Knowledge into the Modern Range Profession in China.
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Namgail, Tsewang; Bhatnagar, Yash Veer; Mishra, Charudutt; and Bagchi, Sumanta

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Næss, Marius W.; Lhagyal, Dondrup; Yangzom, Drolma; Mathiesen, Per; Fox, Joseph L.; andBårdsen, Bård J.

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Nori, Michele

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Piao, Shilong; Fang, Jingyun; and He, Jinsheng.

• Variations in Vegetation Net Primary Production in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China, From 1982-1999.
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Postiglione, Gerard A.; Jiao, Ben; and Goldstein, Melvyn C.

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Pradhan, S. L.; Hitchcock, D. K.; Miller, D.

• Yak hybridisation in the central upper slope region of Nepal: A community resource management strategy.
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Ptackova, Jarmila

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Pu, J.; Yao, T.; Yang, M.; Tian, L.; Wang, N.; Ageta, Y.; and Fujita, K.

• Rapid Decrease of Mass Balance Observed in the Xiao (Lesser) Dongkemadi Glacier, in the Central Tibetan Plateau.
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Rasool, G.; Kahn, B. A.; Jasra, A. W.

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Rhode, David; Madsen, David B.; Brantingham, P. Jeffrey; and Dargye, Tsultrim

• Yaks, yak Dung, and prehistoric human habitation of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Richard, Camille

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Richard, Camille; Jingzheng, Tan

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Richard, Camille; Yan, Zhaoli; and Guizhan, Du

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Riseth, Jan Åge; Johansen, Bernt; Vatn, Arild

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Salik, Jan; Yongping, Yang Yongping; and Amend, Anthony

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Schaller, George B.; Junrang, Ren

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Schaller, George B.; Junrang, Ren; Mingjiang, Qiu

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Schaller, George B.; Junrang, Ren; Mingjiang, Qiu

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Schwartz, Ronald D.

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Schwarzwalder, Brian; Baohua, Zheng; Ping, Li; et al.

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Sheehey, Dennis P.; Miller, Daniel; and Johnson, Douglas A.

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Shinjilt

• Introduction: Remote regions of western China and "ecological migration".
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Sillanpää, Mika; Hulkkonen, Riina-Maarit; Manderscheid, Angela

• Drinking water quality in the alpine pastures of the eastern Tibetan plateau. [Rangifer. Special Issue 15: 47-52, 2004.]

Skjervold, Marius &Johnsrud, Anders Bille

• The Balance between Yaks and Pastures and its Implications for the Local Nomadic Families: A case study from Long Deng Township, Sichuan Province, China. [MA Thesis, Agricultural University of Norway, Dec. 2003.]

Sneath, David

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Squires, Victor; Limin, Hua

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Song, Hongyuan

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Strategic Services, Office of

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Swift, Jeremy; Bass, Stephen; Liu, Yongong

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Sulek, Emilia

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Tan, Gillian

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Tashi, Gongbo; Foggin, Marc

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Tashi, Nyima

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Tashi, Nyima; Xugang, Luo; Shunxiang, Yu; and Judson, Geoff

• A Survey of the Mineral Status of Livestock in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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Thargyal, Rinzin (edited by Toni Huber)

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Tibet Environmental Watch - Reports

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Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD); The League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP)

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Tsering, Dawa; Farrington, John D.; Norbu, Kelsang

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Van Wageningen, N. M.; Wenjun, S.

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Wang, Zongming; Song, Kaishan; Hu, Liangjun

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Weiwei, Lang and Zhao, S.

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• The Mushrooming Fungi Market in Tibet Exemplified by Cordyceps sinensis and Tricholoma matsutake. [JIATS (Journal of the International Association of Tibet Studies). Special Issue. Guest eds. Ken Bauer, Geoff Childs, Andrew Fischer, and Daniel Winkler. "In the Shadow of the Leaping Dragon: Demography, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan Areas." Issue 4. December 2008]
• Deforestation in Eastern Tibet: Human Impact Past and Present. [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 79-96]
• Yartsu Gunbu - Cordyceps sinensis. Economy, Ecology and Ethno-mycology of  a fungus endemic to the Tibetan Plateau - Corrected version. [Originally published in A. Boesi & F. Cardi (eds.). Wildlife and plants in traditional and modern Tibet: Conceptions, Exploitation and Conservation. Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 33(1). 2005. http://danielwinkler.com/id71.htm]

Woo,Wing Thye; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yue; Wu, Harry; and Xinpeng, Xu

• The Poverty Challenge for China in the New Millennium. [2004.]

Wu, Ning

• Man's Impacts on Biodiversity in Tibetan Nomadic Societies of Western Sichuan. [Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Science, 610041 Chengdu]
• Indigenous Knowledge of Yak Breeding and Cross-breeding Among Nomads in Western Sichuan,China. [Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor. 6(1): 7-9, 1998.]
• Indigenous Knowledge of Sustainable Approaches for the Maintenance of Biodiversity in Nomadic Society: Experiences from the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. [Die Erde. 128: 67-80, 1997.]

Wu, Ning & Richard, Camille

• The Privatization Process of Rangeland and its Impacts on the Pastoral Dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: The Case of Western Sichuan, China. [Vlth International Rangeland Congress Proceedings. 1: 14-21.]

Wu, Ning & Yan, Zhaoli

• Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability on the Tibetan Plateau: Dilemmas on the Road to PastoralReform. [Band 56: 2-14, 2002.]

Wu, Ning; Yan, Zhaoli; Lu, Tao

• Enclosure and Resettlement in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Dilemma of Pastoral Development during the Last Three Decades. [H. Kreutzmann (ed.) Pastoral practices in High Asia, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 291-306. 2012]

Wu, Ning; Jian, Liu; Zhaoli, Yan

• Grazing intensity on the plant diversity of alpine meadow in the eastern Tibetan plateau. [Rangifer. Special Issue 15: 9-15, 2004.]

Xiaopen, P.; Degang, Zh.; Changlin, X.; Jiangang, Ch.

• The economic comparison on yak production in two types of cold season grassland in Tianzhu, China. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Xu, Jianchu et al

• Understanding Land Use, Livelihoods, and Health Transitions among Tibetan Nomads: A Case from Gangga Township, Dingri County, Tibetan Autonomous Region of China  (.pdf) [EcoHealth 5, 104-114, 2008 DOI: 10.1007/s10393-008-0173-1]

Xu, Jun

• Challenges: Resettlement of Nomads in Qinghai Province

Xue, B.; Zhao, X. Q.; and Zhang, Y. S.

• Seasonal Changes in Weight and Body Composition of Yak Grazing on Alpine-meadow Grassland in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China.
  [American Society of Animal Science. 83: 1908-1913. 2005.]

Yeh, Emily T.

• Restoring Grasslands? [China Dialogue, 26.01.2010/ https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3470-restoring-the-grasslands-]
• Greening Western China. A Critical View. [Geoforum 40:884-894, 2009.]

Yingchun, L. & Qingping, Zh.

• Sustainable development of rangeland resources on the Qinghai - Tibetan Plateau, P. R. China. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Zhang, Jiancai

• Guoluo Zhou chongcao ziyuan guanli xianzhuang ji guanli. [Current status and management of caterpillar fungus resources in Golok Prefecture]
  [Qinghai Prataculture, 12(1): 33-34 and 37. 2003.]

Zhang, Qian

• The Dilemma of Conserving Rangeland by Means of Development: Exploring Ecological Resettlement in a Pastoral Township of Inner Mongolia. [Nomadic Peoples 16(1): 88-115, 2012.]

Zhang, R. C.

• Effects of Environment and Management on Yak Reproduction. [Zhao X. X. and Zhang R. C. (eds.) Recent Advances in Yak Reproduction. International Veterinary Information Service, Ithaca NY (www.ivis.org). 2000; A1303.0900]

Zukosky, Michael

• Making Pastoral Settlement Visible in China. [Nomadic People 11(2): 107-133. 2007]

Nomads of Golok, Qinghai 

Buffetrille, Katia

• The Great Pilgrimage of A myes rMa chen and Qinghai Map [Mandala and Landscape. Dehli, D.k. Printworld: 75-132, 1997.]
• The Evolution of Tibetan Pilgrimage: The Pilgrimage to A myes rMa chen Mountain in the 21st Century [21st Century Tibet. Symposium on Contemporary Tibetan Studies. Taipeh, Taiwan. 2003.]

Cooke, Susette

• Qinghai: Settling the Nomads [Institute for International Studies. 2007.]

Ekvall, Robert B.

• Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.]

Horlemann, Bianca  

• Modernization Efforts in Golog: A Chronicle, 1970-2000
  [In Amdo Tibetans in Transition: Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era. Edited by Toni Huber. 2: 241-67, 2002.]

Levine, Nancy E.

• Reconstructing Tradition: Persistence and Change in Golog Social Structure [Manuscript.]

Pirie, Fernanda

• Feuding, Mediation and the Negotiation of Authority among the Nomads of Eastern Tibet [Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2005]

Yeh, Emily T.

• Tibetan Range Wars: Spatial Politics and Authority on the Grasslands of Amdo.  [Development and Change Vol. 34 N. 3: 499-523, 2003.]
• Property Relations in Tibet Since Decollectivisation and the Question of Fuzziness. [Conservation and Society. 2(1): 107-131, 2004.]

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