Resource Tenure and Sustainable Land Management — Case Studies from Northern Vietnam and Northern Thailand

摘要: Property rights regimes can have a significant impact on the use of natural resources, especially land, forests, pastures and water. The literature identifies many environmental problems such as soil degradation forest depletion result incomplete, inconsistent or poorly enforced property (Bromley Cernea, 1989; Feder Feeny, 1991; Kirk, 1999). Gordon (1954) Hardin (1968) claimed that under common regimes, resources would be prone to overexploitation because costs negative externalities like pollution water overgrazing are borne by community whole, whereas potential benefits accrue individual. general interpretation these theorems in Southeast Asian countries was collective ownership culprit for destruction, land private control state authority crucial sustain (Chalamwong Feder, 1985; Narkwiboonwong et al., 1994). However, growing amount empirical evidence suggests sustaining does not primarily depend whether based states, communities individuals, but rather well-specified regime is congruent with its ecological social context (Ostrom, 1990 2001; Bromley, 1991).