Grassland Use Rights Leasing Policy and Its Potential Impact on the Life of Tibetan Nomads in the Tibet Autonomous Region: A Critical Analysis
In the Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR) the government had trial implementation of the grassland use rights leasing policy in Nagchu Prefecture in 1999.The Government of Nagchu Prefecture has been promoting it for a larger population and vaster land since then.As of the end of 2006,90.1％ (24.3 million hectares) of applicable grassland in Nagchu has been allocated into households and the goal of the TAR government is to allocate winter‐spring pasture to individual households by the end of 2007.This paper discusses the governments rationale for introducing and implementing the grassland use rights leasing policy in the TAR.The paper then examines the overall socio‐economic impacts of the policy on the life Tibetan nomads so far.Finally, policy recommendations are made.
grassland use rights leasing policy potential impact tibetan nomads
Yundan Nima
Department of Geography,University of Colorado at Boulder,Boulder CO 80309-0260,USA
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）