Abstract:Construction of the Karakoram Highway (KKH) connecting Pakistan with China has brought about changes in the economic, social and cultural systems of the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The authors examined the impacts of this development on pasture resource use by comparing a transect of villages connected to the KKH with a transect still relatively remote within the Gilgit-Ghizer region. Patterns of livestock density and forage use were shown to differ between individual villages, but no direct impacts of the KKH… Show more
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