Publications
Articles in academic journals
- Foggin, J.M. 2018. Environmental Conservation in the Tibetan Plateau Region: Lessons for China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Mountains of Central Asia. Land, 7, 52. DOI: 10.3390/land7020052
- Foggin, M. 2018. In Memory of Andreas Gruschke (1960-2018). Nomadic Peoples 22: 187-191. DOI: 10.3197/np.2018.220201
- Foggin, M., Emslie-Smith, M., and Hergarten, C. 2018. Food Systems and Agrobiodiversity in the Mountains of Central Asia. Mountain Research and Development 38(2): 175-79. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-18-0048
- Xenarios, S, Gafurov, A, Schmidt-Vogt, D., Sehring, J., Manandhar, S., Hergarten, C., Shigaeva, J., and Foggin. M. 2018. Climate change and adaptation of mountain societies in Central Asia: uncertainties, knowledge gaps, and data constraints. Regional Environmental Change (online). DOI: 10.1007/s10113-018-1384-9
- Levine, J., Isaeva, A., Eddy, I., Foggin, M., Gergel, S., Hagerman, S., and Zerriffi, H. 2017. A cognitive approach to the post-Soviet Central Asian pasture puzzle: new data from Kyrgyzstan. Regional Environmental Change (online). DOI: 10.1007/s10113-017-1122-8
- Foggin, J.M. 2016. Conservation Issues: Mountain Ecosystems. Reference Module (online) in Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences, ScienceDirect. Elsevier Publishing Company. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09199-5
- Schmidt-Vogt, D., Foggin, J.M., and Hergarten, C. 2016. Strengthening Mountain Societies in Central Asia in a Context of Multidimensional Change. Mountain Research & Development 36(3): 380-383. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-16-00101.1
- Shigaeva, J., Hagerman, S., Zerriffi, Z., Hergarten, C., Isaeva, A., Mamadalieva, Z., and Foggin, M. 2016. Decentralizing Governance of Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan: An Assessment of Recent Pasture Reforms. Mountain Research & Development 36(1): 91-101. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00023.1
- Buytaert, W., Zulkafli, Z., Grainger, S., Acosta, L., Bastiaensen, J., De Bièvre, B., Bhusal, J., Chanie, T., Clark, J., Dewulf, A., Foggin, M., Hannah, D.M., Hergarten, C., Isaeva, A., Karpouzoglou, T., Pandey, B., Paudel, D., Sharma, K., Steenhuis, T., Tilahun, S., Van Hecken, G., and Zhumanova, M. 2014. Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development. Frontiers in Earth Science (Hydrosphere) 2:26. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2014.00026
- Foggin, J.M. 2014. Managing Shared Natural Heritages: Towards More Participatory Models of Protected Area Management in Western China. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 17(3):130-151. DOI: 10.1080/13880292.2014.953391
- Hodges, J., Foggin, J.M., Long, R.J., and Zhaxi, G. 2014. Globalisation and the sustainability of farmers, livestock-keepers, pastoralists and fragile habitats. Biodiversity 15(2-3):109-118. DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2014.931247
- Foggin, J.M. 2012. Pastoralists and Wildlife Conservation in Western China: Collaborative Management within Protected Areas on the Tibetan Plateau. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2:17. DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-2-17.
- Tashi, Gongbo, and J.M. Foggin. 2012. Resettlement as Development and Progress? Eight Years On: Review of emerging social and development impacts of an ‘ecological resettlement’ project in Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Nomadic Peoples 16(1): 134-151.
- Foggin, J.M., and Torrance-Foggin, M.E. 2011. How can social and environmental services be provided for mobile Tibetan herders? Collaborative examples from Qinghai Province, China. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 1:21. DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-1-21
- Foggin, J.M. 2011. Rethinking ‘Ecological Migration’ and the Value of Cultural Continuity – A Response to Wang, Song and Hu. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 40:100-101.
- Foggin, J.M., and J. Rabden. 2010. Trial use of electric fencing to prevent intrusions by Tibetan brown bear. International Bear News 19(1):15-18.
- Worthy, F. R., and J. M. Foggin. 2008. Conflicts between local villagers and Tibetan brown bears (Ursus arctos) threaten conservation of bears in a remote region of the Tibetan plateau. Human-Wildlife Conflicts 2(2): 200-205.
- Foggin, J.M. 2008. Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: National policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders in Qinghai Province, China. Mountain Research and Development 28(1): 26-31.
- Hornskov, J., and Foggin, M. 2007. Brief notes on the Altai Weasel Mustela altaica on the Tibetan plateau. Small Carnivore Conservation (Journal of IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group) 36: 48-49.
- Foggin, P.M., M.E. Torrance, Drashi Dorje, W. Xuri, J.M. Foggin and J. Torrance. 2006. Assessment of the health status and risk factors of Kham Tibetan pastoralists in the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. Social Sciences & Medicine 63: 2512-2532.
- Katzner, T.E., C.H. Lai, J.D. Gardiner, J.M. Foggin, D. Pearson and A.T. Smith. 2004. Adjacent nesting by Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus and Himalayan Griffon Vulture Gyps himalayensis on the Tibetan Plateau, China. Forktail 20: 94-96.
- Foggin, P.M., J.M. Foggin and C. Shiirev-Adiya. 2000. Animal and human health among seminomadic herders of central Mongolia: brucellosis and the bubonic plague in Ovörhangay Aimag. Nomadic Peoples 4(1): 148-168.
- Smith, A.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1999. The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species for biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau. Animal Conservation 2: 235-240.
- Blumstein, D.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1997. Effects of vegetative variation on weaning success, overwinter survival, and social group density in golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Zoology, London 243: 57-69.
- Blumstein, D.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1993. Playing with fire? Alpine choughs play with a Tibetan red fox. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90: 513-515.
Book chapters, research reports
- Foggin, M., Emslie-Smith, M., Hughes, A., Lechner, A.M., Sternberg, T., and Dossani, R. 2018. Conservation Geopolitics: Envisioning the future of the ‘Belt & Road Initiative’ in the Mountains of Central Asia. MSRI Brief, October 2018. Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
- Foggin, M. 2018. Snow Leopards at Large: One herding community’s hope for the future in the grasslands of Tibet, pp. 135-142 in J. Xu (ed.) (Chap. 20), Mountain Futures: Innovation and Inspiration from the World’s Highlands. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre.
- Manandhar, S., Xenarios, S., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Hergarten C. and Foggin, M. 2018. Climate Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Mountain Societies in Central Asia, MSRI Research Report #1, Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Foggin, M. (editor). 2018. Proceedings of International Workshop Silk Roads in the Mountains of Central Asia: Ancient Routes & Modern Challenges in Times of Global Change, held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 3-4 October 2017. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia.
- Foggin, J.M., and Torrance-Foggin, M.E. 2017. Pastoralism, Development, and the Future of Tibetan Rangelands: Experiences in the Development and Provision of Social Services and Environmental Management, pp.175-186 in A. Gruschke & I. Breuer (eds) (Chap. 13), Tibetan Pastoralists and Development: Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
- Shokirov, Q., Foggin, J.M. and Falck, S. 2017. Tajikistan, pp. 1211-12 in L. Lowry (ed), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
- Foggin, J.M. 2016. Sustainable Rangelands, Sustainable Pastoralism in Yak-Herding Areas of the Greater Tibetan Plateau. Pp. 50-58 in: A. Iwaasa, H.A. Lardner, M. Schellenberg, W. Willms and K. Larson (eds), The Future Management of Grazing and Wild Lands in a High-Tech World: Proceedings 10th International Rangeland Congress. Saskatoon, Canada: IRC.
- Zhang, X.H., Schuman, M., Gao, Y.H., Foggin, J.M., Wang, S.Z., and Joosten, H. 2016. Restoration of high altitude peatlands on the Ruoergai Plateau. Chapter 13, Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services – Science, Policy and Practice, by A. Bonn, T. Allott, M. Evans, H. Joosten & R. Stoneman (eds). Cambridge University Press.
- Foggin, J.M., and Phillips, J. 2013. Horizontal Policy Analysis: A tool to promote sustainable livelihoods development; with implications for Ecological Resettlement and other major development programs in the Tibetan Plateau region. Pp. 3-30 in: Å. Kolås and Zhaluo (eds), Pastoralism in Contemporary China: Policy and Practice. Beijing, China: Social Science Academic Press. [unofficial Chinese version]
- Foggin, J.M., and Gongbu Zhaxi. 2013. Can Ecological Migration policy in the Tibetan plateau region achieve both conservation goals and human development goals? A review of the Canadian experience of relocation and settlement. In Troy Sternberg and Dawn Chatty (eds), Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges. Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press.
- Foggin, P.M., M.E. Torrance, and J.M. Foggin. 2009. Accessibility of Healthcare for Pastoralists in the Tibetan Plateau Region: A case study from southern Qinghai Province, China. In Cao H (ed), Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia: Reality and Challenges. Amsterdam, Holland: Amsterdam University Press.
- Foggin, P.M. and J.M. Foggin. 2008. The practice and experience of settlement and relocation among Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. In P. Potter and Du Fachun (eds), Proceedings of the Canada-China Forum, Western Development and Socio-Economic Change. Beijing, China: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and University of British Columbia (UBC).
- Foggin, J.M. 2005. Highland Encounters: Building new partnerships for conservation and sustainable development in the Yangtze River headwaters, heart of the Tibetan Plateau. In J. Velasquez, M. Yashiro, S. Yoshimura and I. Ono (eds), Innovative Communities: People-centred Approaches to Environmental Management in the Asia-Pacific Region. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University (UNU) Press. (Case study summary) (Book summary)
- Bailey J.F., B. Healy, H. Jianlin, L. Sherchang, S.L. Pradhan, T. Tsendsuren, J.M. Foggin, C. Gaillard, D. Steane, I. Zakharov and D.G. Bradley. 2002. Genetic variation of mitochondrial DNA within domestic yak populations. In Jianlin H., C. Richard, O. Hannotte, C. McVeigh and J.E.O. Rege (eds), Yak productions in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
- Foggin, J.M., and A.T. Smith. 2001. Rangeland utilization and biodiversity on the alpine grasslands of Qinghai Province, People’s Republic of China; The use of regional and county-level datasets. In BWG/CCICED, Conserving China’s Biodiversity (II). Beijing, China: China Environmental Science Press.
Other publications and presentations
- Cieslik, K., Dewulf, A., Foggin, M. 2018. When You Are Gone. Smartphones, Stewardship and Sustainability in and Community-Driven Conservation Project in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan. Presentation given at the Sustainability & Development Conference at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, November 2018.
- Foggin, M. 2018. Developing China’s Protected Areas. Presentation given as part of special symposium “Finding common ground across the rangelands of Central Asia and Tibet” held during the Conservation Asia 2018 conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, August 2018.
- Manandhar, S., Xenarios, S., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Hergarten, C., Foggin, M. 2018. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change of Mountain Societies in Central Asia. Presentation given at Conservation Asia 2018 conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, August 2018.
- Foggin, J.M. and Gongbo Tashi. 2017. Achieving Sustainability through community level partnerships in the Third Pole Environment (TPE): Experiences in inclusive biodiversity conservation in the Sanjiangyuan Region. Presentation given at Third Pole Science Summit in Kunming, China, July 2017.
- Foggin, M., Kapalova, A., Sagynbekova, L., Azarov, A., Shibkov, E., Rosset, A., Ismailova, J., Kalmuratov, S., Hergarten, C., 2018. The transformative capacity of citizen science to empower and enable agro-pastoral communities to adapt their governance of natural resource in the remote Tianshan Mountains in Central Asia. Presentation given at the Citizen Science Association Conference in Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA, May 2017.
- Foggin, J.M. 2016. Snow Leopard Landscape Conservation: Partnering with Local Communities in Western China and Central Asia for Conservation and Development. Presentation given at Mountain Futures conference in Kunming, China, March 2016.
- Foggin, J.M. 2016. Kegawa Herders’ Cooperative: Enhancing Community Resilience and Environmental Conservation in the Yangtze River Headwaters. Presentation given at the Mountain Futures 2016 conference in Kunming, China, March 2016.
- Foggin, J.M. 2016 Tibetan herders diversify their options. Farming Matters (Dec 2016): 37.
- Foggin, J.M. and Hergarten, C. 2015. Empowering communities through Citizen Science: Giving voice to under-represented societies through the practice of participatory conservation and environmental monitoring. Presentation given at Citizen Science 2015 in San Jose, USA, February 2015.
- Foggin, J.M. 2013. ‘Destination Yushu’: Development framework and recommendations for the promotion of tourism in rural Qinghai Province, with focus on Ecotourism & Community Tourism in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Plateau Perspectives: Xining, China.
- Zhang, X.H., Schuman, M., Gao, Y.H., Foggin, J.M., Wang, S.Z., and Joosten, H. 2012. Restoration of high altitude peatlands in Tibet. Presentation at Investing in Peatlands: Demonstrating Success, a Joint Symposium of IUCN UK Peatland Programme and British Ecological Society (BES) at Bangor University, June 2012.
- Foggin, J.M. 2012. Wetland conservation in Asia and China. Presented at the Forum on Wetland Biodiversity Conservation in Northeast Asia, held in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China, on 15-16 September 2012.
- Foggin, J.M. 2011. Tibet’s snow leopards. In Isabel Hilton (ed.), Exploring the Third Pole; Part 5: Conservation and communities. http://thirdpole.net.
- Foggin, J.M. 2011. [Slideshow: Tracking Tibet’s snow leopards] Local herders are central to protecting the snow leopard in the source area of the Yangtze River. China Dialogue.
- Foggin, J.M. 2011. Collaborative management on the Tibetan Plateau: Pastoralists and planners working together for a sustainable future. Presented at the International Symposium on the Human Dimensions of Ecological Conservation on the Tibetan Plateau region, held in Xining, Qinghai, China, on 21-26 August 2011. [Chinese version: 共同管理青藏高原: 规划者与游牧民一起为未来的 可持续发展进行工作.]
- Foggin, J.M. 2011. Local Communities and Conservation on the Tibetan Plateau: Two case studies of collaborative management in the Sanjiangyuan region. In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Human Dimensions of Ecological Conservation on the Tibetan Plateau region, held in Xining, Qinghai, China, on 21-26 August 2011.
- Foggin, J.M., and M.H. Bass. 2010. Mainstreaming Environment into Development: Collaborative land management in the Tibetan grasslands, China. LEAD International. URL: http://www.lead.org/
- Foggin, J.M. 2010. ICCAs as ‘contract conservation’ in the Chinese Tibetan Plateau region. In G. Borrini-Feyerabend et al., Bio-cultural diversity conserved by indigenous peoples & local communities – examples & analysis. Companion document to IUCN/CEESP Briefing Note 10: Strengthening what works – Recognising and supporting the conservation achievements of indigenous peoples and local communities. ICCA Consortium, CENESTA, GEF, SGP, GTZ, IIED, IUCN/CEESP; September 2010.
- Foggin, J.M. 2005. Promoting Biodiversity Conservation and Community Development in the Sanjiangyuan Region: Proceedings of a conservation planning meeting, with agreed priority action points. Conservation planning meeting co-hosted by Plateau Perspectives, Upper Yangtze Organization, Government of Zhiduo County and the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve Management Bureau. Held in Yushu, Qinghai, China, Sep 30 – Oct 13, 2005. Plateau Perspectives: Xining, China. (Chinese version availablehere.)
- Foggin, J.M. 2004. Building New Partnerships for Conservation & Sustainable Development in the Tibetan Plateau Region: Recent Experiences in the Yangtze River Headwaters. Plateau Perspectives: Xining, China.
- Foggin, J.M. 2000. Biodiversity protection and the search for sustainability in Tibetan plateau grasslands. PhD dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 397 pp. URL: http://www.plateauperspectives.org/foggin2000.
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