Dr. Abdulaziz M. Assaeed

PLPR 568

RANGE MANAGEMENT

FOR

MULTIPLE USE

 

Course Content

PLPR 568 Range Management for Multiple Use 2 (2+0) 

Rangeland use for livestock production. Rangeland and wildlife development. Conservation of genetic resources for economic plants. Watershed management. Recreational use of rangelands. Conflicts in multiple use of rangelands and conflict resolution to maintain biodiversity. Systems related to multiple use of rangeland.

Course Objective

The objective of the course is to stimulate constructive thinking of graduate students (MSc. in Range Science and MSc. in Biodiversity) on how to manage the low-output desert ecosystem under high demand of conflicting uses of rangelands.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to accomplish the followings:

• Ability to make scientific judgments on conflicting uses of rangelands.
• Ability to manage rangelands on sustainable basis according to society needs
• Ability to participate in low-making and amendments concerning rangeland use

Reference Books

References are available at loan disk, Prince Salman Central Library

REF#1 Hodgson, J. and A.W. Illius (ed.). 1996. The ecology and management of grazing ecosystems. CABI, UK.

REF#2 Holechek, J.L., R.D. Pieper and C.H. Herbel 1998 (3rd.ed.). Range management: Principles and practices. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 587p.

(Arabic Translation of this Book is Available)

REF#3 Valentine, J.F. 1990. Grazing management. Acad. Press, Inc. San Diego, CA

Supplementary Readings

(Supplementary readings will be handed out one week prior to lecture)

SUPP# 1 Brian H Walker, B.H. and M.A. Janssen. 2002.  Rangelands, pastoralists and governments: interlinked systems of people and nature. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 357(1421): 719–725.

SUPP# 2 Floyd, D.W. 1988. Reducing multiple-use conflicts on public lands through experimental stewardship. Environmental Management 12 (4): 457-462

SUPP# 3 Holmes. J. 2002 Diversity and change in Australia's rangelands: a post productivist transition with a difference? Trans. Instit. of Brit. Geog. 27 (3), 362–384.  

SUPP# 4 Horan, R.D. and E.H. Bulte. 2004. Optimal and open access harvesting of multi-use species in a second-best world. Environ. & Resource Econ. 28 (3): 251-272

SUPP# 5  Huffaker, R.G., J.E. Wilen and B.D. Gardner. 1989. Multiple use benefits on public rangelands: An incentive-based fee system. Amer. J. Agric. Econ. 71(3): 670-678

SUPP# 6  Sarraj, W. (ed.) 1989. Genetic resources of range and forage plant species. ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria.  P. 217. (In Arabic).

SUPP# 7 Young, E. and H Ross. 1994. Using the aboriginal rangelands: 'insider' realities and 'outsider' perceptions. Rangel. J. 16(2) 184 – 197

Student Assessment

Students will be assessed on the following basis:

• One term-paper writing presentation on one issue of rangeland uses (30%)
• One mid-term take-home exam (30%)
• An open-book final exam (40%)

 Lecture schedule

 Sample Exam