Tibet as a Grazing Land
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5290717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Kingdon-Ward, F Kingdon‐ward (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1947 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1/3 |
| Pages | 60 |
| Publication date | 1947-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1789195 |
| OpenAlex | W2322687894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
There is AN aspect of Tibet, and in the modern world perhaps the most important one, which is rarely emphasized. The people with their strange culture and stranger religion, the topographical features, violent and primitive like those of newly upheaved crust, the fierce climate, the vegetation?where there is any?have all been the theme of travel books or have received attention in geographical literature. But Tibet considered primarily as a grazing land seems to have been overlooked. Yet that is what it really is. My object here is to make a contribution to the geography of Tibet from this aspect, partly as a result of my own observations, and at the same time to indicate briefly how incomplete and indeed one-sided our knowledge of the country is. I hope also to suggest the lines along which, in my opinion, research might profitably be carried on for the benefit both of the inhabitants and of the world generally. Tibet has no clearly defined political frontiers recognized by the Tibetans themselves and by their neighbours; still less has it clearly defined geo? graphical boundaries. Hence the name Tibet is in a sense a geographical expression, an abstraction; it is a regional rather than a political name. Here the term Tibet is used in its most comprehensive sense, unrestricted by political prejudices, having regard only to what constitutes the Tibetan plateau lands. By far the greater part of the country is divided between desert and grazing land. Forest and arable land form a very small proportion of the non-desert area. Before describing the pasture land in detail, it will be helpful to give a brief sketch of the topography of Tibet as a whole and its probable evolution
Agroforestry · Biology · Geography · Grazing · Physical geography · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forestry · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1959 - 2016 (58) |
| Highly cited | No |