The National University of Mongolia and other partner are developing local adaptation strategies of the coupled social-environmental system to climate change in the Mongolian rangelands. Spatially large landscape is critical in arid lands to offset climate variability.  A fragmentation of the cultural landscapes in the arid and semi-arid lands of Mongolia has increased vulnerability. Therefore, this project will try to reinstate traditional land use practices, while supplementing these with knowledge of adaptive land management. Specifically, the project will: (1) add to communities’ and resource managers’ knowledge of adaptive rangeland and water management practices currently in use on lands vulnerable to drying; (2) help communities and local government develop plans to revise the allocation of pastures for seasonal use, hay-making lands, reserve pasture, and sacred lands so as to be compatible with current and expected future climate stresses and with traditional cultural values, (3) help herders and other stakeholders come up with local solutions to improve water security, (4) help stakeholders reach an agreement on a new administrative-territorial unit which incorporates cultural landscape as an adaptation mechanism to climate change. Link to Source