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DANIEL J. MILLER
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Daniel Miller
5235 Western Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20015
Tel: 202-363-1415
Email: wildyakman@hotmail.com
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Daniel Miller is a rangeland ecologist and agricultural development specialist with over 15 years professional experience in agricultural development, natural resource management and biodiversity conservation in Asia.
He has worked in Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Nepal and Pakistan and has traveled widely throughout South and Southeast Asia.
He speaks Nepalese, Tibetan, and some Chinese.
Mr. Miller grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, working in agricultural development.
For many years, he also worked as a cowboy in Montana.
From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Miller formulated, appraised, and implemented numerous range-livestock development, community forestry, and watershed management projects as a consultant for USAID, UNDP, FAO, Canadian International Development Agency, Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank in Bhutan, China, Mongolia, and Nepal.
From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Miller managed the dairy development and environmental portfolio for USAID/Nepal.
Duties included the strategic planning process for new forestry and environment initiatives.
From 1995 to 1997, while employed as a rangeland specialist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, Mr. Miller directed assessments of rangeland ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya, which included work in Bhutan, China, Nepal and Pakistan.
These studies encompassed pastoral production, rangeland management, and biodiversity and resulted in published proceedings from two international workshops, which Mr. Miller organized.
While at ICIMOD, Mr. Miller also undertook work for the New Zealand government to prepare a rural development and environmental conservation project in northwest Yunnan Province, China and participated in an assessment of the range-livestock sector of Pakistan for the ADB.
In 1998, Mr. Miller was engaged by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to assess biodiversity and opportunities for integrated conservation and development activities in northwest Yunnan Province of China.
In 1998, he assisted the WWF-China Program in organizing an international conference on Tibet's biodiversity, held in Lhasa, Tibetan Autonomous Region, China and edited the papers presented at the workshop for a proceedings that is being published by WWF.
In Tibet, Mr. Miller also worked for the US-based NGO, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Foundation, in 1998 to develop and implement participatory rural development and environmental conservation projects among Tibetan nomads.
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) engaged Mr. Miller in 1998 and 1999 to design a bilateral co-operation project in environmental conservation and rural development in Tibet.
In 1999, Mr. Miller was engaged by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) to assess forests and grazing lands in Nepal.
In 1999, he also undertook a consultancy for the New Zealand government in Sichuan Province, China to design a livestock development project.
As a consultant for WWF in 1999, Mr. Miller organized an ecoregion-based conservation workshop for the Eastern Himalayas in Kathmandu, Nepal and edited the proceedings from the workshop.
In 2000, Conservation International, a Washington, DC-based conservation organization, engaged Mr. Miller as a consultant to assess opportunities for biodiversity conservation projects in Sichuan Province, China.
The Peak Enterprise Program of the Mountain Institute, a Franklin, West Virginia-based NGO, employed Mr. Miller as a short-term consultant on dairy development projects in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
In 2000, the World Bank contracted with Mr. Miller to analyze rangeland resource management issues in western China as part of the Bank's environmental sector update report.
In 2000, Mr. Miller organized and led a forage germplasm collecting trip in the Tibetan Plateau of China on a joint cooperative project between the US Department of Agriculture and the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.
Recently, Mr. Miller has been engaged by the Canadian International Development Agency to advise on pastoral development in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
Mr. Miller operates his own consulting business focussing on rural development and natural resource management in Asia.
He is based in Washington, DC.
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Miller, D. (in press).
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Miller, D. 2000.
Tough times for Tibetan nomads in Western China: Snowstorms, settling down, fences, and the demise of traditional nomadic pastoralism.
Nomadic Peoples, 4(1): 83-109.
Miller, D. 2000.
Tibetan nomads, pp.
61-63.
In: C. Borden (ed.) Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 2000.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Miller, D. 1999.
Herders of forty centuries: Nomads of Tibetan rangelands in western China, pp.
402-403.
In: D. Eldridge and D. Freudenberger (eds.) People and Rangelands: Building the Future, Proceedings of the VIth International Rangeland Congress, July 19-23, 1999, Townsville, Australia.
VI International Rangeland Congress, Inc., Aitkenvale, Australia.
Miller, D. 1999.
Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau rangelands in Western China, Part Three: Pastoral Development and Future Challenges.
Rangelands, 21(2): 17-20.
Miller, D. 1999.
Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau rangelands in Western China, Part Two: Pastoral Production.
Rangelands, 21(1): 16-19.
Miller, D. 1998.
Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau Rangelands in Western China, Part One: Pastoral History.
Rangelands, 20(6): 24-29.
Miller, D. 1998.
Grassland privatization and future challenges in the Tibetan Plateau of Western China. pp.
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Miller, D. 1998.
Conserving biological diversity in Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau rangelands. pp.
291-320, In: Ecoregional Co-operation for Biodiversity Conservation in the Himalaya, Report on the International Meeting on Himalaya Ecoregional Co-operation, February 16-18, 1998, Kathmandu, Nepal.
UNDP and WWF, New York.
Miller, D. 1998.
Fields of Grass: Portraits of the Pastoral Landscape and Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu.
Miller, D. and G. Schaller.
1998. Rangeland dynamics in the Chang Tang Wildlife Reserve, Tibet, pp.
125-147.
In: I. Stellrecht (ed.) Karakorum-Hindukush-Himalaya: Dynamics of Change.
Rudiger Koppe Verlag, Koln, Germany.
Miller, D. 1998.
Tibetan pastoralism: hard times on the plateau.
Chinabrief 1(2): 17-22.
Miller, D. 1997.
Status and Future Development in the Chang Tang Wildlife Reserve, Tibet (in Chinese).
Caoyuan Yu Mucao 1997-1 (76): 1-6.
Miller, D. 1997.
Rangelands and Pastoral Development: An Introduction. pp.
1-6. In: Miller, D. and S. Craig (eds.) Rangelands and Pastoral Development in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, Proceedings of a Regional Experts' Meeting, November 5-7, 1996, Kathmandu, Nepal.
ICIMOD, Kathmandu.
Miller, D. 1997.
New Perspectives on Range Management and Pastoralism and their Implications for Hindu Kush-Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau Rangelands. pp.
7-12. In: Miller, D. and S. Craig (eds.) Rangelands and Pastoral Development in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, Proceedings of a Regional Experts' Meeting, November 5-7, 1996, Kathmandu, Nepal.
ICIMOD, Kathmandu.
Miller, D. 1997.
Conserving and managing yak genetic diversity: an introduction. pp.
2-11. In: Miller, D., S. Craig and G. Rana (eds.) Conservation and Management of Yak Genetic Diversity, Proceedings of a Workshop, 29-31 October 1996, Kathmandu, Nepal.
ICIMOD and FAO, Kathmandu.
Miller, D. 1997.
Range Management and Pastoralism: New Perspectives and Their Implications.
ICIMOD Newsletter, 26: 4-7.
Miller, D. 1997.
Conserving Biodiversity in HKH Rangelands.
ICIMOD Newsletter, 26: 8-11.
Miller, D. 1997.
Conserving an Managing Yak Genetic Diversity.
ICIMOD Newsletter, 26: 12-14.
Miller, D. and G. Schaller.
1997. Conservation Threats to the Chang Tang Wildlife Reserve, Tibet.
Ambio, 26(3): 185-186.
Miller, D. and G. Schaller.
1996. Rangelands of the Chang Tang Wildlife Reserve in Tibet.
Rangelands, 18(3): 91-96.
Miller, D. 1995.
Herds on the Move: Winds of Change Among Pastoralists in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.
ICIMOD Discussion Paper MNR 95/2.
ICIMOD, Kathmandu.
Miller, D. and D. Bedunah.
1994. Rangelands of the Kunlun Mountains in Western China.
Rangelands, 16(2): 71-76.
Miller, D., R. Harris and Cai, G. 1994.
Wild yaks and their conservation on the Tibetan Plateau. pp.
27-34.
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