环境与能源经济学讲座:Combining Private and Common Property Management: The Impact of a Hybrid Ownership Structure on Grassland Conservation

发布日期:2024-02-23 12:00    来源:

主讲人:黄开兴(北京大学现代农学院)

时间:2024年2月23日(周五)上午10:00-12:00(北京时间)

地点:北京大学承泽园249教室

摘要:

This study finds that a hybrid property structure outperforms pure private or pure public ownership in terms of grassland conservation after a land tenure reform in China. The tenure reform introduced a mix of ownership systems to replace public ownership and led to a significant 5.4% increase in grassland quality on average. The grassland quality increase is twice as large for private grassland with additional access to public grassland compared to those without such access. Interestingly, public grassland quality did not decline, indicating sustainable utilization by herders. We develop a conceptual framework to reconcile these findings, demonstrating that private ownership increases the uncertainty related to the damage of natural disasters such as adverse climatic shocks, which could be abated by nomadic herding when there is additional access to public grassland. We further provide empirical supports and show that the gains from public grassland access are substantially larger when there are adverse climatic shocks. Our study provides important policy implications for property rights and sustainable grassland management under more frequent climate events.

主讲人简介:

黄开兴,北京大学现代农学院、中国农业政策研究中心研究员、博士生导师。他的研究兴趣主要集中在农业经济学、环境经济学和经济增长。研究论文发表于Journal of Environmental Economics and Management、Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists等国际知名期刊。


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