Valuation of Rangeland Ecosystem Services from the “Herder-GrassLivestock” Social Ecological System Perspective: a Case Study in Guinan County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai
Rangeland ecosystem has unique characteristics as it provides home to both extensive livestock production and thousands of herders. Thus, valuating rangeland ecosystem needs to consider the co-evolved system of grass, livestock and herders. Based on case study from Guinan County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai with semi-structured interview, field sampling and multi-stakeholder interview, the study valuates the rangeland ecosystem from a complete ecosystem perspective-Herder-Grass-Livestock p...