Ken Bauer
Research Specialist of Ethnobotany
Wm. L. Brown Center
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

Office phone: +1-314-577-5100
Fax: +1-314-577-0800
Email: kenneth.bauer@mobot.org

Ph.D., Oxford University, 2008
M.Sc., University of California-Berkeley, 1999
B.A., Brown University, 1992

General Research Interests

• Land Use Change

• Pastoralism

• Ecological Ethnobotany

• Interactions of Plants, People, and Environment

Research Emphases

• Indigenous People and Climate Change

• Tibetan ethnobotany

• Tibetan nomads

• Economic development

Publications

• Bauer, K. and A. Magri. (forthcoming). The Herder’s Environment: A GIS Case Study of Resource Use Patterns Among Pastoralists in Central Tibet. Journal of Land Use Science.

• Bauer, K. (2009). On the Politics and the Possibilities of Participatory Mapping and GIS: Using Spatial Technologies to Study Common Property and Land Use Change Among Pastoralists in Central Tibet. Cultural Geographies 16:229-252.

• Bauer, K. (2008). Introduction: Demographics, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan areas of China. Special Issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies.

• Davies, J., M. Niamir-Fuller, C.Kerven, and K. Bauer. (2008). Extensive Livestock Production in Transition: The Future of Sustainable Pastoralism. In: Livestock in a Changing Landscape: Drivers, Consequences and Responses. Washington: Island Press.

• Bauer, K. (2008). Common Property over Time: Access to and Distribution of Resources among Pastoralists in Central Tibet (1884-2004). In: Multifunctional Grasslands in a Changing World. Guangzhou, PRC: Guangdong People’s Publishing House.

• Bauer, K. (2006). Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet. Journal of Political Ecology 13:24-47.

• Bauer, K. (2005). Pastoral Development and the Enclosure Movement in the Tibet Autonomous Region since the 1980s. Nomadic Peoples 9:85-115.

• Bauer, K. (2004). High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists. New York: Columbia University Press.

Updated 7/25/10