IntroductionMechanisms of rangeland degradation and recovery -- Case studies of degradation and recovery -- The future : how to prevent the next major degradation episode. The context for the study of rangeland degradation and recovery in china's pastoral lands / Victor Squires and Zhang Kebin Historical degradation episodes in china: socio-economic forces and their interaction with rangeland grazing systems since the 1950s / Victor Squires and Yang Youlin An analysis of the effects of climate variability in northern china over the past five decades on people, livestock, and plants in the focus areas / Lu Qi, Wang Xuequan and Wu Bo Mechanisms of degradation in grazed rangelands / Li Xiangli The mechanisms of soil erosion processes by wind and water in chinese rangelands / Zhou ZhiYu and Bin Ma Processes in rangeland degradation, rehabilitation and recovery / Victor Squires (Case study 1) Hulunbuir grassland, Inner Mongolia / Lu Xinshi (Case study 2) Horqin sandy land, Inner Mongolia / Jiang Deming ... [et al.] (Case study 3) Xilingole grassland, Inner Mongolia / Jianhui Huang, Yongfei Bai, and Ye Jiang (Case study 4) Ordos plateau, Inner Mongolia / Zheng Yun Run and Li Qiushuang (Case study 5) Hexi corridor, Gansu / Yuhong Li and Victor Squires (Case study 6) Alashan plateau, Inner Mongolia / Li Qinfeng (Casestudy 7) Qinghai-Tibet plateau rangelands / Long Ruijun ... [et al.] (Case study 8) Northern Xinjiang / Jin Gui-li and Zhu Jin-zhong Land tenure arrangements, property rights and institutional arrangements in the cycles of rangeland degradation and recovery / Adrian Williams, Mei Ping and Zheng Dalai Monitoring and evaluation as tools for rangeland management / Aiyun Liu How can the next degradation episode be prevented? / Victor R. Squires and Yang Youlin. | 
