The market, the state and the environment: implications for community-based rangeland management.

Abstract

AbstractThis paper examines what was learned from the seven case studies about the impacts of the market economy, state policies and environmental change on herder communities in China and Mongolia. In particular, the potential roles of community-based rangeland management (CBRM) in mitigating the negative impacts of economic and policy changes and in serving as a catalyst for greater cooperation within communities and for successful market integration and negotiation with the state are evaluated. It was observed that the impacts of economic, policy and environmental change are interrelated and that CBRM has the potential to play a key role in mediating these relationships and serving as a link between individual herder households, herder communities, states and markets.