Diverse Economies of Ranching

A generic version of the diverse economy is shown at the left, with the specific iterations of a diverse economy in a ranching landscape shown on the right. Source: Diverse Economies Iceberg by Community Economies Collective is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Julia Haggerty and her colleagues use the diverse economies iceberg to capture the diversity of practices that make up 'the economy' in the rangelands of the central Montana portion of the Northern Great Plains (in the US). The authors write: “In emphasizing the diversity of practices that make up ‘the economy’ and the intimate intertwining of the economy with ecologies, diverse economies thinking opens up space to approach the complex ways that the livelihoods of rural residents and rangeland wildlife overlap and the search for adaptive solutions to conservation challenges.” (p. 934).

There’s also an accompanying film, Life in the Land: Connection People and Place in Montana.

Source: Julia Hobson Haggerty, Kathleen Epstein, Drew E. Bennett, Bill Milton, Laura Nowlin, and Brian Martin (2023), Wildlife, Rural Communities, and the Rangeland Livelihoods They Share: Opportunities in a Diverse Economies Approach, in Lance B McNew, David K Dahlgren, Jeffrey L Beck (eds.), Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Springer, Chapter 27.