Locust Control in Transition: The Loss and Reinvention of Collective Action in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Locust Control in Transition: The Loss and Reinvention of Collective Action in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

The inability to organize collective action for pest control can lead to severe problems. This paper focuses on the locust management system in Kazakhstan since the formation of the Soviet State. During the Transition Period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Plant Protection Service disint...

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Main Authors: Kazbek Toleubayev, Kees Jansen, Arnold van Huis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
collective action
institutional change
Kazakhstan
knowledge
land use
locust
plant protection
public good
Soviet Union
transition period.
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art38/

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art38/

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