Data for: Pastoralist decision-making on the Tibetan plateau

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<h3> Data Generation & Analysis </h3>
<p>This article is one of six resulting from an interdisciplinary, collaborative NSF-funded project that sought to investigate the multiple (social and ecological) correlates of rangeland status on the Tibetan Plateau. The project was motivated by the fact that rigorous studies of putative causes of rangeland degradation on the Tibetan Plateau have been lacking, and as a result, policies are being implemented without clear rationale or evidence. These same policies are often both ecologically ineffective and socially and culturally detrimental to Tibetan communities. The project combined repeated vegetation sampling on fixed plots, an exclosure experiment, and GPS tracking of livestock with intensive interviews with herders. While several of the articles resulting from the study are very interdisciplinary in nature, this article is primarily an interpretive article based on qualitative data, though some of the arguments are made in relation to the results of the vegetation studies.</p>
<p>More specifically, this article identifies three major assumptions of the Chinese state’s grassland policies, and uses qualitative evidence to refute each one.</p>