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DOI	10.3390/land11091398
	Informal Institutions and Herders' Grazing Intensity Reduction Behavior: Evidence from Pastoral Areas in China
	Wang, Lijia; Tang, Zeng; Feng, Qisheng; Wang, Xin
通讯作者	Wang, LJ
来源期刊	LAND
EISSN	2073-445X
出版年	2022
卷号	11 期号:9
英文摘要	Overgrazing is the key factor that has exacerbated grassland degradation in China's pastoral regions. Herder's grazing-based livestock production behavior becomes important to grassland conservation. Several formal environmental institutions and policies exist to improve grassland degradation; however, there remain contradicting conclusions regarding the contribution of these policies. Informal institutions become major instruments that might encourage herder's behavior on overgrazing. Using village rules and conventions (VRC) as a proxy for informal institutions, the article attempts to scrutinize whether the VRC emerge to respond to herders' willingness to reduce grazing intensity for grassland conservation and elicit factors affecting their reduction behavior using a Double-Hurdle model. Based on a survey of 193 respondents in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang Autonomous regions of China, the empirical results provide evidence that VRC is effective in reducing herders' grazing intensity. In detail, the VRC in written form and an unchanging context within five years could significantly improve herders' willingness to reduce grazing intensity. Herders who consider the VRC as an important impact to their livestock production observe an increased reduction degree of grazing intensity. Additionally, variables referring to herder's education and religious belief play a significant role in the reduction degree of grazing intensity. Our findings highlight the importance of VRC in controlling herders' overgrazing behavior.
英文关键词	informal institutions village rules and conventions (VRC) reduction degree of grazing intensity herder China
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000857735200001
WOS关键词	GRASSLAND DEGRADATION ; INNER-MONGOLIA ; EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS ; PROTECTION ; POLICY ; DESERTIFICATION ; ARRANGEMENTS ; VEGETATION ; VARIABLES ; IMPACTS
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/393691
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Lijia,Tang, Zeng,Feng, Qisheng,et al. Informal Institutions and Herders' Grazing Intensity Reduction Behavior: Evidence from Pastoral Areas in China[J],2022,11(9).
APA	Wang, Lijia,Tang, Zeng,Feng, Qisheng,&Wang, Xin.(2022).Informal Institutions and Herders' Grazing Intensity Reduction Behavior: Evidence from Pastoral Areas in China.LAND,11(9).
MLA	Wang, Lijia,et al."Informal Institutions and Herders' Grazing Intensity Reduction Behavior: Evidence from Pastoral Areas in China".LAND 11.9(2022).