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- Title
Common Property Resources in Rural India: Distribution and Dependence.
- Authors
Chattopadhyay, Seemantini
- Abstract
Common Property Resources (CPRs) are usually non-exclusive resources to which rights of use are distributed among a number of co-owners, generally identified by their membership in a community or a village. In the context of Indian villages, common property resources include community forests, common grazing grounds, tanks and their beds, foreshores, threshing grounds, rivers and riverbeds, where well-defined property regime may not exist. Though it is not owned by any individual and is accessible to the whole community, it is important to know the magnitude, distribution across the 17 major States and status of CPRs in India. CPRs occupy an important position in the economy of the poor, whose employment and income generation opportunity from private property are limited. To the landless and land-poor, this is the resource to fall back upon during times of need. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the distribution of CPRs in India across various states. Also a quick estimate of the extent of dependence of rural people on this type of resource in terms of collection and use has been attempted.
- Subjects
INDIA; PROPERTY rights; EMPLOYMENT of poor people; POOR people; EARNED income
- Publication
ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 2, p6
- ISSN
0972-9313
- Publication type
Article