The Role of Land Management in Shaping Arid/Semi-arid Landscapes: the Case of the Catholic Church (CICM) in Western Inner Mongolia from the 1870s (Late Qing Dynasty) to the 1940s (Republic of China)

This article is in the special issue "Land Degradation and Rehabilitation in Ecologically Fragile Areas", which arose from the International Workshop on Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Arid Lands held in September 2007.