Implementation of pasture leasing rights for mobile pastoralists – a case study on institutional change during post-socialist reforms in Azerbaijan

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ID23024138
AuthorsRegina Neudert (0000-0003-0910-794X, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, corresponding author), Michael Ruehs (Institute of Sustainable Development of Landscapes of the Earth), Volker Beckmann (0000-0001-6595-7995, Universität Greifswald)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue2
Pages648
Publication date2015-09-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281
PublisherUbiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18352/bmgn-lchr.515
OpenAlexW4248669901
LanguageEN
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Our study focuses on pasture reform in Azerbaijan within the context of transition and pasture reform in Central Asian and Caucasian countries. Despite the rapid emergence of individualised rights for pasture plots, which is an exceptional development in this region, pasture reform in Azerbaijan has received little attention in the scientific literature. Using evidence from an empirical case study we analyse the implementation and outcomes of the reform process for pastoral land in the context of the macroeconomic development in Azerbaijan and in comparison to pasture reforms in other post-socialist transition countries. We apply the evolutionary theory of property rights to explain and analyse the exceptionally rapid emergence of individual property rights to pasture in Azerbaijan.

Agriculture · Context (archaeology) · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Land reform · Livestock · Pastoralism · Pasture · Political science · Property rights · Forestry · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Russia and Soviet political economy

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