ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the sources of adaptive capacity for Mongolian herders, with a focus on herders' access to information and help for dealing with extreme climate events drought and dzud as well as more chronic pressures related to forage and water resources. Herders' sources of help and information range from the level of neighbouring households to government agencies, including the local, informal structures associated with kin and community organisations, up to more formal sources at the level of the bag, soum and aimag. The chapter findings about how government entities gain information of pastoral system conditions, and how actions related to various response strategies flow up and down the governance/decision-making levels. The insights gained from this work provide an evaluation of existing networks of engagement, as well as suggestions for how green development goals could be advanced appropriately in Mongolian pastoral communities.
