Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Challenges for Rangeland People -- 2 Future Shocks to People and Rangelands -- 3 Indigenous People in Rangelands -- 4 Rangelands: People, Perceptions and Perspectives -- 5 Desertification and Soil Processes in Rangelands -- 6 Understanding and Managing Rangeland Plant Communities -- 7 Range Management and Plant Functional Types -- 8 People and Plant Invasions of the Rangelands -- 9 People and Rangeland Biodiversity -- 10 Managing Grazing -- 11 Rehabilitation of Mined Surfaces -- 12 Accounting for Rangeland Resources -- 13 Building on History, Sending Agents into the Future - Rangeland Modelling, Retrospect and Prospect -- 14 Integrating Management of Land and Water Resources: the Social, Economic and Environmental Consequences of Tree Management in Rangelands -- 15 Land and Water Management: Lessons from a Project on Desertification in the Middle East -- 16 International Perspectives on the Rangelands -- 17 Policies, Planning and Institutions for Sustainable Resource Use: a Participatory Approach -- 18 Economics and Ecology: Working Together for Better Policy -- 19 Building the Future: Practical Challenges -- 20 Rangeland Livelihoods in the 21st Century -- 21 Building the Future: a Human Development Perspective -- 22 Synthesis: New Visions and Prospects for Rangelands -- Index.