Yonten Nyima
Biographic Data
| ID | 200178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yonten Nyima |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yonten |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyima |
| SIGNATURE | NYIMA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sichuan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9058-8992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The politics of afforestation in Tibet: Controversies over tree planting and the persistence of green narratives in Nagchu
This article examines the persistence of afforestation and greening narratives through a case study of an experimental tree-planting project in Nagchu City, a high-altitude, historically treeless area in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The project – implemented by private enterprise Elion, under China’s Ministry of Science and Technology – aimed to establish trees in Nagchu. After reviewing the history of afforestation, this article analyses t…
Hermann Kreutzmann, Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond: Human Geography and Geopolitics
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Houses for People and Houses for Goats: Reducing Pastoralist Mobility in Tibet
Since 2000, a number of programmes have been implemented in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China aimed at sedentarisation, defined as the spatial and temporal concentration of pastoralists and their livestock. In our case study village in Nagchu, a programme to move pastoralists into concentrated housing failed to sedentarise them. By contrast, a secondary programme component to build subsidised livestock shelters has had a much more pronounced e…
When the Land Cannot Support the People Any More: The Utility of an Official Formulation in Resettlement in Tibet
This article examines the use of a popular Chinese formulation, yifang shuitu yanghuo buliao yifangren ('the soil and water of a place cannot support the local people'), in China's poverty-alleviation resettlement by focusing on the case of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The official narrative that the formulation points to is that the native land of Tibetans living in 'harsh' environments can no longer support them and cannot enable them to escape…
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region
This article examines the implementation of China’s ongoing program for rangeland protection through the case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The program's three goals are preventing rangeland degradation, changing ‘the mode of pastoral development’, and increasing pastoralists' income. Based on the belief that overgrazing has caused pervasive rangeland degradation, it compensates pastoralists for losses incurred where grazing is banned…
Tibetan Lake Expansion from a Pastoral Perspective: Local Observations and Coping Strategies for a Changing Environment
Global climate change is causing the majority of large lakes on the Tibetan Plateau to expand. While these rising lake levels and their causes have been investigated by hydrologists and glaciologists, their impacts on local pastoral communities have mostly been ignored. Our interviews with pastoralists in central Tibet reveal their observations and beliefs about Lake Serling’s expansion, as well as how its effects are interacting with current ran…
Political‐economic factors in official reports on rangeland degradation: A critical case study from the Tibet Autonomous Region
A narrative of extremely pervasive rangeland degradation that underlies ongoing state policy on range management and pastoralism widely circulates in scientific reports, policy statements and news reports in China. Adopting a political ecology approach, this paper critically analyses official reports on rangeland degradation through a case study from the Tibet Autonomous Region. It reveals internally inconsistent or contradictory figures and stat…
Obituary | Andreas Gruschke (1960-2018)
What factors determine carrying capacity? A case study from pastoral T ibet
Through a case study from P elgon County, T ibet Autonomous Region in C hina, this paper aims to enrich the existing literature on why and how applying carrying capacity to rangeland management may not be feasible even though it is claimed to be a scientific approach. The application of carrying capacity to rangeland management based on equilibrium assumptions has been the very essence of state policy on range management and pastoralism in C hina…
Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer
A larger herd size as a symbol of wealth? The fallacy of the cattle complex theory in T ibetan pastoralism
Through a case study from N agchu, the T ibet Autonomous Region, C hina, this paper deconstructs the cattle complex theory in the context of T ibetan pastoralism. Specifically, it demonstrates that it is desirable for T ibetan pastoralists to have a larger herd size for three overlapping reasons that do not follow the logic of the cattle complex theory. First, owing to biological, cultural and economic factors, herd sizes are not equivalent to ac…
Tibetan Pastoralists' Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Political Ecology Analysis of Snowstorm Coping Capacity
Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer
Tibetan Pastoralists' Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Political Ecology Analysis of Snowstorm Coping Capacity
Tibetan Lake Expansion from a Pastoral Perspective: Local Observations and Coping Strategies for a Changing Environment
Global climate change is causing the majority of large lakes on the Tibetan Plateau to expand. While these rising lake levels and their causes have been investigated by hydrologists and glaciologists, their impacts on local pastoral communities have mostly been ignored. Our interviews with pastoralists in central Tibet reveal their observations and beliefs about Lake Serling’s expansion, as well as how its effects are interacting with current ran…
A larger herd size as a symbol of wealth? The fallacy of the cattle complex theory in T ibetan pastoralism
Through a case study from N agchu, the T ibet Autonomous Region, C hina, this paper deconstructs the cattle complex theory in the context of T ibetan pastoralism. Specifically, it demonstrates that it is desirable for T ibetan pastoralists to have a larger herd size for three overlapping reasons that do not follow the logic of the cattle complex theory. First, owing to biological, cultural and economic factors, herd sizes are not equivalent to ac…
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region
This article examines the implementation of China’s ongoing program for rangeland protection through the case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The program's three goals are preventing rangeland degradation, changing ‘the mode of pastoral development’, and increasing pastoralists' income. Based on the belief that overgrazing has caused pervasive rangeland degradation, it compensates pastoralists for losses incurred where grazing is banned…
Political‐economic factors in official reports on rangeland degradation: A critical case study from the Tibet Autonomous Region
A narrative of extremely pervasive rangeland degradation that underlies ongoing state policy on range management and pastoralism widely circulates in scientific reports, policy statements and news reports in China. Adopting a political ecology approach, this paper critically analyses official reports on rangeland degradation through a case study from the Tibet Autonomous Region. It reveals internally inconsistent or contradictory figures and stat…
What factors determine carrying capacity? A case study from pastoral T ibet
Through a case study from P elgon County, T ibet Autonomous Region in C hina, this paper aims to enrich the existing literature on why and how applying carrying capacity to rangeland management may not be feasible even though it is claimed to be a scientific approach. The application of carrying capacity to rangeland management based on equilibrium assumptions has been the very essence of state policy on range management and pastoralism in C hina…
Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer
A larger herd size as a symbol of wealth? The fallacy of the cattle complex theory in T ibetan pastoralism
Through a case study from N agchu, the T ibet Autonomous Region, C hina, this paper deconstructs the cattle complex theory in the context of T ibetan pastoralism. Specifically, it demonstrates that it is desirable for T ibetan pastoralists to have a larger herd size for three overlapping reasons that do not follow the logic of the cattle complex theory. First, owing to biological, cultural and economic factors, herd sizes are not equivalent to ac…
Tibetan Pastoralists' Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Political Ecology Analysis of Snowstorm Coping Capacity
What factors determine carrying capacity? A case study from pastoral T ibet
Through a case study from P elgon County, T ibet Autonomous Region in C hina, this paper aims to enrich the existing literature on why and how applying carrying capacity to rangeland management may not be feasible even though it is claimed to be a scientific approach. The application of carrying capacity to rangeland management based on equilibrium assumptions has been the very essence of state policy on range management and pastoralism in C hina…
Obituary | Andreas Gruschke (1960-2018)
Tibetan Lake Expansion from a Pastoral Perspective: Local Observations and Coping Strategies for a Changing Environment
Global climate change is causing the majority of large lakes on the Tibetan Plateau to expand. While these rising lake levels and their causes have been investigated by hydrologists and glaciologists, their impacts on local pastoral communities have mostly been ignored. Our interviews with pastoralists in central Tibet reveal their observations and beliefs about Lake Serling’s expansion, as well as how its effects are interacting with current ran…
Political‐economic factors in official reports on rangeland degradation: A critical case study from the Tibet Autonomous Region
A narrative of extremely pervasive rangeland degradation that underlies ongoing state policy on range management and pastoralism widely circulates in scientific reports, policy statements and news reports in China. Adopting a political ecology approach, this paper critically analyses official reports on rangeland degradation through a case study from the Tibet Autonomous Region. It reveals internally inconsistent or contradictory figures and stat…
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region
This article examines the implementation of China’s ongoing program for rangeland protection through the case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The program's three goals are preventing rangeland degradation, changing ‘the mode of pastoral development’, and increasing pastoralists' income. Based on the belief that overgrazing has caused pervasive rangeland degradation, it compensates pastoralists for losses incurred where grazing is banned…
Houses for People and Houses for Goats: Reducing Pastoralist Mobility in Tibet
Since 2000, a number of programmes have been implemented in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China aimed at sedentarisation, defined as the spatial and temporal concentration of pastoralists and their livestock. In our case study village in Nagchu, a programme to move pastoralists into concentrated housing failed to sedentarise them. By contrast, a secondary programme component to build subsidised livestock shelters has had a much more pronounced e…
When the Land Cannot Support the People Any More: The Utility of an Official Formulation in Resettlement in Tibet
This article examines the use of a popular Chinese formulation, yifang shuitu yanghuo buliao yifangren ('the soil and water of a place cannot support the local people'), in China's poverty-alleviation resettlement by focusing on the case of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The official narrative that the formulation points to is that the native land of Tibetans living in 'harsh' environments can no longer support them and cannot enable them to escape…
The politics of afforestation in Tibet: Controversies over tree planting and the persistence of green narratives in Nagchu
This article examines the persistence of afforestation and greening narratives through a case study of an experimental tree-planting project in Nagchu City, a high-altitude, historically treeless area in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The project – implemented by private enterprise Elion, under China’s Ministry of Science and Technology – aimed to establish trees in Nagchu. After reviewing the history of afforestation, this article analyses t…
Hermann Kreutzmann, Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond: Human Geography and Geopolitics
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Livestock (5 works) · Pastoralism (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · China (4 works)