Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/I004440/1
Ecosystem management to alleviate poverty on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor RD Bardgett, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr F Zhang, CAB International, Int Dev Southeast & East Asia - China
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor H Xiangyang, Grassland Research Institute CAAS, Research
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor NJ Ostle, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr U Schaffner, CAB International, International Development Switzerland
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr N Maczey, CAB International, International Development (UK)
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor C Dianxiong, Inst of Agricultural Res & Regional Plan, UNLISTED
- Grant held at:
- Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Soil science
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- The grasslands in China are in a state of ecological crisis. For example, about 33% of the grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, the largest grassland unit on the Eurasian continent, are degraded, and about 15% of those are severely degraded with only 0-40 % of the original vegetation cover left. Grassland degradation has important economic and environmental consequences. About 80% of the rural poor in China live in grassland ecosystems and any further degradation of this fragile ecological environment, with an associated loss of ecosystem services, will accelerate their poverty. The overall goal of the proposed Partnership and Project Development (PPD) Grant is to develop a full proposal that has the aims of: (a) identifying the relationship between ecosystem properties/processes and the provision of critical goods and services in these grassland ecosystems; (b) developing tools that help to conserve particular ecosystem services or benefits of these grasslands in a changing climate; and (c) strengthening decision-making options and transferring this knowledge to the rural poor, to the commercial sector, and to regional and national governments. The PPD Grant will allow us to review relevant policies and regulations on grassland management and poverty alleviation in China, to compile a list of all major stakeholder groups required for developing the full proposal, to organize a regional workshop as well as a field excursion to the Habei experimental field station on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, and to write the grant proposal with a participatory approach involving all the consortium members as well as relevant stakeholders.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/I004440/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed (Research Programmes)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- ESPA PPD
This grant award has a total value of £44,729
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Exception - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £32,470 | £2,313 | £4,323 | £775 | £4,816 | £33 |
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