<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McAllister, RRJ</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Livestock mobility in arid and semi-arid Australia: escaping variability in space</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pastoralism - Research, Policy and Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">agistment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">customary institutions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">desert</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">desert knowledge</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">drylands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">grazier</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ranching</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">37-54</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mobility is practised by pastoralists in an effort to offset some of the limitations imposed by the variability and unpredictability of limited forage resources. Livestock mobility is critical not because it is a better approach to managing variability than increasing the temporal scale of forage use, but because a diverse portfolio of strategies is needed to manage risk. The global trend towards rangeland privatisation, fragmentation and land-use intensification is subduing many of the institutions which have traditionally facilitated pastoral mobility. While Australia’s pastoral industry was developed along the lines of a European private-property system, livestock mobility has recently been increasing as the industry matures into its variable climate. In Australia, the opportunistic movement of livestock over large-scales is facilitated by institutions that enable the trade of grazing rights between enterprises. These are effective but imperfect. Problematically, interpersonal and environmental knowledge is asymmetric (and poorly monitored) and there are frequently differing behavioural expectations between trading partners. Hence, there is scope for policy to support mobility by targeting these institutional failures. More generally, as global grazing lands trend towards privatisation, the Australian system of trading grazing rights serves to inform efforts to maintain spatial flexibility in the industrial era.</style></abstract><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DKCRC-0798</style></custom2></record></records></xml>