Effects of Government Grassland Conservation Policy on Household Livelihoods and Dependence on Local Grasslands: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China

Protection of the grassland’s ecological environment and improvement of people’s livelihoods are major tasks for the management of pastoral areas in Inner Mongolia. The comprehensive program for grassland conservation in China, the Subsidy and Incentive System for Grassland Conservation (SISGC), was launched in 2011. To comprehend the effects of this major step towards sustainable grassland development, this study focuses on the spatio-temporal development of grasslands in Inner Mongolia since 2011. Through the combination of MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite data with up to date meteorological data, we used the indicators of Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Net Primary Productivity (NPP) to analyze qualitative and quantitative grassland changes. A classification system on the pixel level, reflecting change trends and fluctuations of both FVC and NPP, was applied to monitor and analyze the grassland development from 2011 to 2019. In particular, the spatial transfer matrix of the recent two years (2018 to 2019) was analyzed to reveal the latest potential issues and random impact factors. The results show a positive overall but spatially unbalanced effect of SISGC, with a prominent positive impact in the semi-desert grassland area. The potential threats from both social and natural aspects as well as the importance of a forecast system for local stakeholders in the pastoral area are discussed.

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Review for "Textural, chemical, isotopic and microthermometric features of sphalerite from the Wunuer deposit, Inner Mongolia: Implications for two stages of mineralization from hydrothermal to epithermal"

10.1002/gj.3852/v3/review2 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Inner Mongolia ◽

Two Stages

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Author response for "Textural, chemical, isotopic and microthermometric features of sphalerite from the Wunuer deposit, Inner Mongolia: Implications for two stages of mineralization from hydrothermal to epithermal"

10.1002/gj.3852/v3/response1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Xiejun Fan ◽

Xinbiao Lü ◽

Xiangdong Wang

Keyword(s):

Inner Mongolia ◽

Author Response ◽

Two Stages

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Decision letter for "Characteristics of the Hailesitai volcanic province, Inner Mongolia, and inferred magma source and tectonic setting"

10.1002/gj.3849/v3/decision1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Inner Mongolia ◽

Tectonic Setting ◽

Magma Source ◽

Volcanic Province

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Author response for "Characteristics of the Hailesitai volcanic province, Inner Mongolia, and inferred magma source and tectonic setting"

10.1002/gj.3849/v2/response1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Min Lin ◽

Shengyao Yu ◽

Changqian Ma ◽

Xilin Zhao ◽

Yujuan Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Inner Mongolia ◽

Tectonic Setting ◽

Author Response ◽

Magma Source ◽

Volcanic Province

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Review for "Geochemical characteristics and geological significance of Daohugou Formation at Ningcheng County of Inner Mongolia, Eastern China"

10.1002/gj.4050/v1/review1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Inner Mongolia ◽

Eastern China ◽

Geochemical Characteristics ◽

Geological Significance

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Diagnosing and Debunking Korean Pseudohistory

European Journal of Korean Studies ◽

10.33526/ejks.20191802.37 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 37-80

Author(s):

Andrew Logie

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

East Asia ◽

20Th Century ◽

Inner Mongolia ◽

Political Influence ◽

The Core ◽

Early State

In current day South Korea pseudohistory pertaining to early Korea and northern East Asia has reached epidemic proportions. Its advocates argue the early state of Chosŏn to have been an expansive empire centered on mainland geographical Manchuria. Through rationalizing interpretations of the traditional Hwan’ung- Tan’gun myth, they project back the supposed antiquity and pristine nature of this charter empire to the archaeological Hongshan Culture of the Neolithic straddling Inner Mongolia and Liaoning provinces of China. Despite these blatant spatial and temporal exaggerations, all but specialists of early Korea typically remain hesitant to explicitly label this conceptualization as “pseudohistory.” This is because advocates of ancient empire cast themselves as rationalist scholars and claim to have evidential arguments drawn from multiple textual sources and archaeology. They further wield an emotive polemic defaming the domestic academic establishment as being composed of national traitors bent only on maintaining a “colonial view of history.” The canon of counterevidence relied on by empire advocates is the accumulated product of 20th century revisionist and pseudo historiography, but to willing believers and non-experts, it can easily appear convincing and overwhelming. Combined with a postcolonial nationalist framing and situated against the ongoing historiography dispute with China, their conceptualization of a grand antiquity has gained bipartisan political influence with concrete ramifications for professional scholarship. This paper seeks to introduce and debunk the core, seemingly evidential, canon of arguments put forward by purveyors of Korean pseudohistory and to expose their polemics, situating the phenomenon in a broader diagnostic context of global pseudohistory and archaeology.

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