期刊
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
卷 86, 期 -, 页码 309-317出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.06.008
关键词
Pastoralism; Overgrazing; Political ecology; Neoliberalism; China; Inner Mongolia
资金
- Renmin University of China , P.R. China [16XNI004]
This study examines how neoliberal environmental logics in China have led to severe overgrazing issues in grassland governance. Market-based policies intended to reduce livestock numbers have actually decreased production returns for herders, exacerbating the problem of overgrazing.
Neoliberal environmental logics have increasingly characterized China's grassland governance since the 1980s. The government has implemented a series of policies premised on the assertion that intensification and marketization will alleviate grassland degradation caused by overgrazing by increasing returns on production and thus enabling herders to raise fewer livestock. However, after several decades, overgrazing is more severe than ever. This study explains this outcome through the lens of political ecology. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of data from field research in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, this study explores how marketbased policies that aimed to allow herders to destock by improving returns on production have instead decreased production returns and exacerbated overgrazing. Results show that the development of market-based intensive production and herders' marginalized political-economic position have together eroded their ability to benefit from livestock production, causing a simple reproduction squeeze and a cycle of indebtedness that forces herders to overgraze. Overgrazing is not a result of herders' lack of knowledge or care for the grasslands. Instead, it is caused precisely by state policies aimed at increasing economic efficiency for the purpose of environmental improvement.
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