The authors assessed the the existing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) situation in the peri-urban Ger areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia using field observations and semi-structured key informant interviews carried out during 2012 and 2013.
In this paper, the authors hypothesized a hump-shaped relationship, land-cover conversion of the type visible in remotely sensed images and economic changes (and secondarily, human population growth. In general, the authors found that the area with the most rapid human population growth, was the area where land cover change was most evident.
The authors selected the North China Plain (NCP) and Eastern Inner Mongolia (EIM) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) as study areas to investigate climate-induced migration between them.
Open Symposium on "Change and Sustainability of Pastoral Land Use Systems in East and Central Asia" will take place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 28 - July 1, 2001, organized by Land Use in Temperate East Asia (LUTEA) network and the TEA Regional Committee for START.
The paper explores the factors in determining the capacity of a pastoral econmy to accommodate an increasing rural population with minimum resource depletion.
