Law and Disorder in Mongolia: Local Implementation of Mongolia's Land Law

dc.contributor.authorFernandez-Gimenez, Maria E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBatbuyan, B.en_US
dc.coverage.countryMongolia
dc.coverage.regionEast Asiaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-31T14:41:32Z
dc.date.available2009-07-31T14:41:32Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.date.submitted2001-07-02en_US
dc.date.submitted2001-07-02en_US
dc.description.abstract"With the dismantling of herding collectives in Mongolia in 1992, formal regulatory institutions for allocating pasture vanished, and weakened customary institutions were unable effectively to fill the void. Increasing poverty and wealth differentiation in the herding sector combined with the lack of formal or strong informal regulation led to declining nomadic mobility and increasing trespassing and out of season grazing--a downward spiral of unsustainable grazing practices. In 1994, Mongolia's parliament passed the Land Law, which provides for the issuance of land possession contracts (leases) over pastoral resources such as campsites and pastures. Implementation of leasing provisions began in 1998-1999. This paper examines the implications of land lease implementation at the local level, including differing interpretations of the law by various stakeholders, the potential impacts of leases on poor herders access to resources, and the potential role of pasture land leases in rangeland co-management institutions. Changes in herders' patterns of resource use since 1995 are explored based on a 1999 resurvey of herding households studied in 1994-1995."en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdatesMay 31-June 4en_US
dc.identifier.citationconferenceConstituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Propertyen_US
dc.identifier.citationconflocBloomington, Indiana, USAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/2010
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectIASCen_US
dc.subjectco-managementen_US
dc.subjectdecollectivizationen_US
dc.subjectcommon pool resourcesen_US
dc.subjectpastoralismen_US
dc.subjectland tenure and useen_US
dc.subjectlegislationen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional changeen_US
dc.subjectherdersen_US
dc.subjectnomadsen_US
dc.subject.sectorGrazingen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.submitter.emailhess@indiana.eduen_US
dc.titleLaw and Disorder in Mongolia: Local Implementation of Mongolia's Land Lawen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
dc.type.publishedunpublisheden_US

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