Publications

Articles in academic journals

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. In Special Issue on Wildlife and Pastoralism (UNEP media press release).
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

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

Foggin, J.M. 2012. [PowerPoint presentation] 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. [PowerPoint NOTES].
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. URL: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4615-Slideshow-Tibet-s-snow-leopards-
Foggin, J.M. 2011. [PowerPoint presentation] 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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