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Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.12.010

Study on the Grassland Ecosystem-based Adaption Management under the Land Private Use

Dan Li

Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, Beijing 100142, China.

*Corresponding author: Dan Li

Published: December 14,2022

Abstract

Since 1984, China’s government has implemented household land private use in rural areas to promote market economy, which brought a great change to the local community in terms of land management, particularly for the pastoral areas. Taking an agro-pastoral area of N County of Xinjiang as a case study, this research analyzed the interaction between the local community production rules and land private use as external rules based on Hayek’s Theory of Society Order Evolution. Semi-structured household interviews were conducted at two villages in 2017 and 2018 to examine the contradiction and coordination between external land policy and community internal rules, and analyze the evolution mechanism. The results showed that the internal joint production rules of pastoral community were replaced by the external rules of land use, which led to each households manage their land independently, and consequently their traditional resource management rules were gradually terminated. Under the market mechanism, many farmers chose to raise livestock as well as farming, and they paid herders to graze their livestock on the herder’s pasture. This new agro-pastoral transaction relationship led to overgrazing and pastures degradation. The pastoral community failed to develop new ecosystem-based adaption rules to cope with the shocks from both of outside policy and the market after their previous rules were broken. Although this is a negative case to analyze why a local community failed to adapt to the outside institutional and marketization change, the lessons and suggestions from this study would contribute to the further study in the ecosystem-based adaption management of natural resources.

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How to cite this paper

Study on the Grassland Ecosystem-based Adaption Management under the Land Private Use

How to cite this paper: Dan Li. (2022) Study on the Grassland Ecosystem-based Adaption Management under the Land Private Use. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science6(4), 567-580.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.12.010