A cognitive approach to the post-Soviet Central Asian pasture puzzle: new data from Kyrgyzstan

Levine, Jordan; Isaeva, Aiganysh; Eddy, Ian M. S.; Foggin, J. Marc; Gergel, Sarah E.; Hagerman, Shannon; Zerriffi, Hisham

doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1122-8

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“…However, the degradation has also been confirmed by independent normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)-based studies using remote sensing (Mirzabaev et al 2016). Levine et al (2017) also confirmed that NDVI data largely supports the incidence of degradation with few caveats and reported that the analysis could benefit from the use of local ecological knowledge. This paper refers to the degradation as the loss of pasture productivity.…”

Section: Pasture Development In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 59%

“…According to the official data, about 70% of Kyrgyzstan's natural pastures are now degraded (Pasture Department 2015). The extent of the degradation and even the understanding of the term are questioned by some authors (Levine et al 2017). However, the degradation has also been confirmed by independent normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)-based studies using remote sensing (Mirzabaev et al 2016).…”

Section: Pasture Development In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Income diversification strategies among pastoralists in Central Asia: Findings from Kyrgyzstan

Sabyrbekov

2019

Pastoralism

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The loss of land productivity is one of the key challenges facing land use policy-makers worldwide. Pastoralist societies are particularly vulnerable to the loss of land productivity due to their dependence on pastures to raise livestock. Decreasing this dependence through the diversification of livelihood strategies could potentially reduce the vulnerabilities of such societies, with the added benefit of reducing livestock pressure on pastures. This study examines on-pasture income diversification strategies among Kyrgyz pastoralist societies and aims to identify which factors lead to tourism engagement as a non-livestock pasture-related income source. Both individual household and regional (rayon) features associated with diversification are investigated, as are factors such as the perceived high levels of pasture productivity loss. The results show that the income diversification among households differs depending on the number of head of livestock a household owns, regional differences and whether a household manages livestock belonging to others. In addition, the study found no statistically significant result that would show that high perception of pasture degradation would lead to adoption of non-livestock livelihoods, i.e. tourism.

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Section: Pasture Development In Kyrgyzstanmentioning

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Income diversification strategies among pastoralists in Central Asia: Findings from Kyrgyzstan

Sabyrbekov

2019

Pastoralism

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“…Ethnography can be defined as "a family of methods involving direct and sustained social contact with agents, and of richly writing up the encounter, respecting, recording, and representing at least partly in its own terms, the irreducibility of human experience" [66] (p.5). Narrative is a unit of analysis in this research as it allows to understand the reasoning of people which may otherwise appear senseless or difficult to explain [67].…”

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Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Leong¹,

Mukhtarov²

2018

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This article investigates how the “constructivist turn” in public policy and international political economy informs the interaction of global ideas and local practice in water governance. We use the implementation of ideas associated with Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Lower Mekong river basin. This article provides some explanation of the attitudes in the villages in Cambodia due to the Sesan 2 Dam, which would see the relocation of thousands of people, damage fisheries, and inflict high coping costs on villagers. Based on 24 in-depth interviews with villagers, commune heads and local community leaders, we find diverse narratives which transcend the “pro or anti” dam narrative. We find four narrative types - myths, stories, noise and informed opinion, which relate to each other in degrees of social meaning and ideational force. Of these, the first two are more likely to be useful in terms of mobilization and policy-making. This typology provides a framework for analysis of social change in the studied villages and other context of policy translation. We should state that these four types are not separate from each other but are linked along two axis which together conscribe the four types of narratives outlined.

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“…Ethnography can be defined as "a family of methods involving direct and sustained social contact with agents, and of richly writing up the encounter, respecting, recording, and representing at least partly in its own terms, the irreducibility of human experience" [78] (p. 5). Narrative is a unit of analysis in this research as it allows to understand the reasoning of people which may otherwise appear senseless or difficult to explain [79].…”

Section: Q3 (Noise) Q4 (Informed Opinions)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Leong

Mukhtarov

2018

Water

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This article investigates how the “constructivist turn” in public policy and international political economy informs the interaction of global ideas and local practice in water governance. We use the implementation of ideas associated with Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Lower Mekong river basin. This article provides some explanation of the attitudes in the villages in Cambodia due to the Sesan 2 Dam, which would see the relocation of thousands of people, damage fisheries, and inflict high coping costs on villagers. Based on 24 in-depth interviews with villagers, commune heads and local community leaders, we find diverse narratives which transcend the “pro or anti” dam narrative. We find four narrative types—myths, stories, noise and informed opinion, which relate to each other in degrees of social meaning and ideational force. Of these, the first two are more likely to be useful in terms of mobilization and policy-making. This typology provides a framework for analysis of social change in the studied villages and other contexts of policy translation. We should state that these four types are not separate from each other but are linked along two axis which together conscribe the four types of narratives outlined.

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A cognitive approach to the post-Soviet Central Asian pasture puzzle: new data from Kyrgyzstan

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Income diversification strategies among pastoralists in Central Asia: Findings from Kyrgyzstan

Income diversification strategies among pastoralists in Central Asia: Findings from Kyrgyzstan

Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

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