A traditional integrated land use system of the Yi people in upland in Sichuan Province, P. R. China : a case study in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture | |
| Author | Zhitie, Luo |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.NR-07-13 |
| Subject(s) | Land use, Rural--China--Sichuan Indigenous peoples--China--Sichuan Sustainable development--China--Sichuan |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements fore the degree of Master of Since in Natural Resources Management, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. NR-07-13 |
| Abstract | Indigenous know ledge is playing more and more important role in sustainable development in rural areas; especially the knowledge and methods of traditional integrated land use system of native people are significant to the rural local sustainable development. So, in world wide scale, more and more scholars, experts and managers of sustainable development are interested to study the integrated land use system of native people in order to find out the. useful indigenous knowledge of native people and then to use the helpful indigenous knowledge in the local sustainable development. But it seems that the same thing is different in P.R China, many traditional integrated land use systems of native people are still not studied by scholars and experts in detail, and the traditional integrated land use system of Yi in uplands of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is one of the examples. For some reasons, the traditional integrated land use system of Yi in uplands of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is still not clear and unknown to others but for sustainable development in rural uplands of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture it is necessary to study the traditional integrated land use system of the Yi people. The thesis researched the traditional integrated land use system of Yi in uplands (here, upland means cold, mountainous and high altitude area) of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; how the Yi people use their farmlands to cultivate crops and vegetables; how the Yi people raise their domestic animals; how the Yi people manage their forests and bushes; through what methods or activities the cultivating system, livestock and forest management systems are linked together; which factors caused the changes of the traditional integrated land use system of Yi in uplands of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; found out, the problems for the local sustainable development; and finally given some recommendations about the local sustainable development to the local government |
| Year | 2007 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. NR-07-13 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Natural Resources Management (NRM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Webb, Edward L.;Thapa, Gopal B.; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Ford Foundation; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2007 |