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Acknowledgement Thanks are due to the project officers from Sunan county and to the Grassland Monitoring station staff for assistance and providing data. Special thanks to the herder families of Dacha village who participated in the survey that made this report possible.

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    Hua Limin

  2. Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW, Australia

    David Michalk

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    Limin Hua

  3. Gansu Bureau of Animal Husbandry, Qin'an Road 1, Lanzhou, 730030, China, People's Republic

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Limin, H., Michalk, D. (2010). Herders’ Income and Expenditure: Perceptions and Expectations. In: Squires, V., Hua, L., Li, G., Zhang, D. (eds) Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9622-7_11

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