Study On Environmental Effect Of Livestock Husbandry

Forming the appreciation to the livestock husbandry influence on environment in ancient times is very important, which has practical significance for us to establish proper economic development mode and to realize the win-win development between environment and economy. This paper makes research into the influence caused by livestock breeding to environment by choosing typical area in specific periods, in the setting of that such research cannot meet the demand of reality because of the insufficiency and sharp different views on this issue. The aim of the paper is to improve comprehension and make progress in discussion.This paper possesses four parts, altogether seven chapters. The beginning part, the first chapter introduced the object of study, analyzed the current situation, confirmed the content and significance of the study in the hope of seeking for point of penetration to solve problems according to the data in existence. The second part covers chapter two to four. It recovered the 300-year livestock husbandry in Yike Shao League from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China in four periods and restored the developing thread of this area at that time. Chapter five and six belong to the third part of the paper. Based on the former results, it anatomized the environmental effect of livestock husbandry in Yike Shao League through quantity of domestic animals the area bred and the mode of production it used. My own opinions and comments were proposed in this part as well. The fourth part, chapter seven is the conclusion part. It summarized the whole content, the devotion and the aspect that needs further study.The following understanding and conclusion were gained by the research: The biggest problem we face in research of the ancient border areas is the lack of data and language barrier. Taking Erdos for example, recordation of this area from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China is rare, even less about the animal husbandry. Besides, most of which are archives of Manchus and Mongolian. To study animal husbandry in this area, profound knowledge of the language mentioned is more important than waiting for literature interpreters' translating achievements.Correlation knowledge of livestock breeding, such as animals' adaptability to the environment and characteristics of eating, the distribution regularity of forage grass, the grass production ability and the herding frequency is needed for studying animal husbandry. For ancient livestock breeding study, subjects of animal husbandry, historical literature, historical geography, geography, environmentology, even demography should be combined and analysed synthetically.Though Erdos went through temperature fluctuation during the Qing Dynasty, environmental degeneration was not serious. It was sped up during the period of the Republic of China, and its degree and range surpassed the earlier times after the People' s Republic of China founded. The reason for that lies in the humane factor that developed agriculture blindly in the first 80 years of the 20th century and made overloading on the grassland.300 years from Qing to the Republic of China, the maximum number of animals in Erdos was no more than 750 per unit (this was the bearing the weight of amount of livestock of this area of today), so there would be no possibility of overloading on the macroscopic and it did not bear main responsibility to the deterioration of the environment. However, Overload phenomenon was existed as points, lines, blocks in a minority, mainly near the riverhead of rivers, lakes, water springs or around the settlements such as government station and temples and so on. together around in specific block, click, linear guard station, But until during the period of the Republic of China, the coverage of this kind of phenomenon of overloading was still too limited to cause the environment to degrade.Policies of all previous governments played an important role in Erdos' environment evolution. The policy of prohibition and nurturing domestic animal livestock in the early 100 years of the Qin...