@article{Dörre:159093,
      recid = {159093},
      author = {Dörre, Andrei},
      title = {Legal Arrangements and Pasture–related Socio–ecological  Challenges in Kyrgyzstan},
      address = {2013-10-01},
      number = {1611-2016-134589},
      pages = {9},
      month = {Oct},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {It has to be stated from the beginning that grasslands in  Kyrgyzstan have a crucial
economic importance from the  macroeconomic national level down to the level of  local
households as supplier of natural animal fodder, as  well as crucial ecological meanings such as for water and  nutrient cycling, filtration, and soil formation. In spite  of the vast expanse of pasture lands and the reduction of  livestock numbers in the 1990s, the scope and diversity of  pasture-related socio-ecological challenges have increased  remarkably, and have come to endanger the continued  provision of these services (Wilson 1997:62–63; Undeland  2005: 22). Degradation leads to a growing shortage of  grassland, and pasture-related conflicts jeopardize the  country’s social integrity. Based on these facts, this  presentation has two objectives. The first is to shed light  on the importance of legal institutions for the emergence  of pasture-related social and ecological problems. Second,  it advocates for a participatory approach to the creation  of institutional regulations regarding the management and  utilization of natural resources. Including the local  population in the pasture utilization-related  institution-building process can make a decisive  contribution to a sustainable development of the country’s  society by balancing different interests. The hypothesis to  be explored is that formal institutions, especially  top-down-initiated legal rules, are decisively contributing  to the formation of socio-ecological pasturerelated  challenges.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/159093},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.159093},
}