Kyrgyzstan’s grasslands have an economic importance as well as crucial ecological meanings. The hypothesis to be explored here is that formal institutions, especially top-down-initiated legal rules implemented since 1991, are decisively contributing to the formation of socio-ecological pasture-related challenges. It is misleading to explain these problems through the neo-Malthusian argument that a growing population necessarily leads to overexploitation and degradation of natural resources. The causes are much more complex. Utilization practices applied by the actors can be understood as results of the interplay of economic necessities, weak legal institutions, legal uncertainty and a related lack of reliable planning opportunities. In this...
The sudden independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991 led to a total rupture of indust...
For many centuries, (semi-)nomadic pastoralists used pasture areas in the Tien Shan and Pamir mounta...
International audienceIn 2009, Kyrgyzstan adopted a community-based pasture management model. While ...
It has to be stated from the beginning that grasslands in Kyrgyzstan have a crucial economic importa...
It has to be stated from the beginning that grasslands in Kyrgyzstan have a crucial economic import...
In Kyrgyzstan, a high mountain country in Central Asia, grasslands occupy almost half of the territo...
Presently the determination of mechanisms for effective management and sustainable use of pasture re...
This thesis seeks to understand the development and implementation of the community-based pasture ma...
This article focuses on issues related to the use of rangeland resources for secondary purposes, whi...
Pasture use in the Kyrgyz Republic has changed significantly as a result of fundamental political...
The development discourse maintains that community-based approaches are generally equitable, sustain...
Enhanced rangeland governance is a priority for the governments of the post-Soviet Central Asian sta...
The paper looks at the Soviet legacy in pasture governance systems of Kyrgyzstan that reproduce Sovi...
The paper looks at the Soviet legacy in pasture governance systems of Kyrgyzstan that reproduce Sovi...
LEAD publication jointly managed by the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)...
The sudden independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991 led to a total rupture of indust...
For many centuries, (semi-)nomadic pastoralists used pasture areas in the Tien Shan and Pamir mounta...
International audienceIn 2009, Kyrgyzstan adopted a community-based pasture management model. While ...
It has to be stated from the beginning that grasslands in Kyrgyzstan have a crucial economic importa...
It has to be stated from the beginning that grasslands in Kyrgyzstan have a crucial economic import...
In Kyrgyzstan, a high mountain country in Central Asia, grasslands occupy almost half of the territo...
Presently the determination of mechanisms for effective management and sustainable use of pasture re...
This thesis seeks to understand the development and implementation of the community-based pasture ma...
This article focuses on issues related to the use of rangeland resources for secondary purposes, whi...
Pasture use in the Kyrgyz Republic has changed significantly as a result of fundamental political...
The development discourse maintains that community-based approaches are generally equitable, sustain...
Enhanced rangeland governance is a priority for the governments of the post-Soviet Central Asian sta...
The paper looks at the Soviet legacy in pasture governance systems of Kyrgyzstan that reproduce Sovi...
The paper looks at the Soviet legacy in pasture governance systems of Kyrgyzstan that reproduce Sovi...
LEAD publication jointly managed by the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)...
The sudden independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991 led to a total rupture of indust...
For many centuries, (semi-)nomadic pastoralists used pasture areas in the Tien Shan and Pamir mounta...
International audienceIn 2009, Kyrgyzstan adopted a community-based pasture management model. While ...