Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

IF 2.2 3区社会学 Q2 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Society & Natural Resources Pub Date : 2023-02-27 DOI:10.1080/08941920.2023.2183534

Ye Qi

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Abstract Over the past few decades, there has been considerable discussion about Hardin’s tragedy of the commons in natural resource management literature. Although the privatization of property rights can alleviate the tragedy, the land fragmentation caused by privatization can impair the sustainable use of natural resources, resulting in mismatched property rights. This study used the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau’s grassland resources to analyze the causes, consequences, and possible solutions of the property rights mismatches. Our findings support that if property rights systems of natural resources mismatch the characteristics of resources, or their bundles of rights do not reflect the complementary with other resources, property rights mismatches will occur. Our findings further reveal that the privatization of property rights based on the spatial boundaries of the resource system will strengthen the spatial exclusivity of resource use, resulting in property rights mismatches, while the mixed property rights can achieve matching with the characteristics of the resource system and resource units.

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产权错配与资源利用——以青藏高原草原资源为例

摘要在过去的几十年里，自然资源管理文献中对哈丁的公地悲剧进行了大量的讨论。虽然产权私有化可以缓解这一悲剧，但私有化造成的土地碎片化会损害自然资源的可持续利用，导致产权不匹配。本文以青藏高原草原资源为研究对象，分析了产权错配的原因、后果和可能的解决方案。研究结果表明，如果自然资源的产权制度与资源的特性不匹配，或者其权利束不反映与其他资源的互补性，就会发生产权错配。基于资源系统空间边界的产权私有化会强化资源使用的空间排他性，导致产权失配，而混合产权则可以实现与资源系统和资源单元特征的匹配。

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期刊介绍： Society and Natural Resources publishes cutting edge social science research that advances understanding of the interaction between society and natural resources.Social science research is extensive and comes from a number of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, political science, communications, planning, education, and anthropology. We welcome research from all of these disciplines and interdisciplinary social science research that transcends the boundaries of any single social science discipline. We define natural resources broadly to include water, air, wildlife, fisheries, forests, natural lands, urban ecosystems, and intensively managed lands. While we welcome all papers that fit within this broad scope, we especially welcome papers in the following four important and broad areas in the field: 1. Protected area management and governance 2. Stakeholder analysis, consultation and engagement; deliberation processes; governance; conflict resolution; social learning; social impact assessment 3. Theoretical frameworks, epistemological issues, and methodological perspectives 4. Multiscalar character of social implications of natural resource management