DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2024.220101en Author: Hermann Kreutzmann Affiliation: Institute of Geographic Sciences, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Email: h.kreutzmann@fu-berlin.de Language: English Issue: 1/2024 (22) Pages: 3-26 (24 pages) Keywords: Shrinking pastoralism, rangelands, resettlement, Central Asia, tragedy of responsibility, South Asia Abstract Shrinking pastoral spaces are phenomena that have occurred on a global scale and in particular in mountain…