Governing the local in the North Caucasus

Koehler, Jan; Gunya, Alexey; Tenov, Timur

doi:10.1080/15387216.2017.1410440

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“…Last, the lack of institutionalized land ownership remains a factor that limits agriculture in the northern Caucasus (Kolosov et al, 2017). Land disputes among farmers, ethnic groups, district municipalities, and big agricultural holdings often escalated into tensions and clashes (International Crisis Group, 2015;Koehler et al, 2017).…”

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“…In Chechnya, for example, the state regulates access to land while district municipalities regulate land in other republics. As a result, legislative contradictions concerning the status and use of agricultural lands are prevalent in the northern Caucasus (Koehler et al, 2017). In terms of agricultural land use, abandonment has been widespread throughout Russia since the early 1990s due to the termination of large subsidies to agriculture (Ioffe and Nefedova, 2000).…”

Section: Northern Caucasusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

Yin

Butsic

Buchner

et al. 2019

Global Environmental Change

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Armed conflicts are globally widespread and can strongly influence societies and the environment. However, where and how armed conflicts affect agricultural land-use is not well-understood. The Caucasus is a multi-ethnic region that experienced several conflicts shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most notably the two Chechen Wars, raising the question how agricultural lands were changed. Here, we investigated how the distance to conflicts and conflict intensity, measured as the number of conflicts and the number of casualties, affected agricultural land abandonment and subsequent re-cultivation, by combining social, environmental and economic variables with remotely-sensed maps of agricultural change. We applied logistic and panel regression analyses for both the First Chechen War (1994-1996) and the Second Chechen War (1999-2009) and interacted conflict distance with conflict intensity measures. We found that agricultural lands closer to conflicts were more likely to be abandoned and less likely to be re-cultivated, with stronger effects for the First Chechen War. Conflict intensity was positively correlated with agricultural land abandonment, but the effects differed based on distance to conflicts and the intensity measure. We found little re-cultivation after the wars, despite abundant subsidies, indicating the potentially long-lasting effects of armed conflicts on land-use. Overall, we found a clear relationship between the Chechen Wars and agricultural land abandonment and re-cultivation, illustrating the strong effects of armed conflicts on agriculture.

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Section: Northern Caucasusmentioning

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Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

Yin

Butsic

Buchner

et al. 2019

Global Environmental Change

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“…Governance extends beyond government to include informal and formal arrangements. Formal governance entails institutionalized ways of organizing society and producing collective goods and services through authoritative rules (Draude et al 2012;Koehler et al 2017).…”

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“…The heterogeneity rarely results from transparent and formalized local procedures; rather, it results from varied and often antagonistic relationships between the state and the communities. The state strongly affects whether local governance works or fails, but it is enacted via informal patron-client relations and moderated by the ways local communities confront, manipulate, or avoid state interference (Koehler et al 2017).…”

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Challenges for Governing Mountains Sustainably: Insights From a Global Survey

Tucker

Alcántara-Ayala

Gunya

et al. 2021

Mountain Research and Development

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“…Hoffmann's (2017) as well as Koehler, Gunya, and Tenov's (2017) research projects on Georgia and the North Caucasus, respectively, can be placed within the wider spectrum of governance research on the Caucasus that discusses formal and informal practices: Both consider prevailing power structures in the formation of political space and the role informal practices play in them, including the presence and importance of plural legal practice. The two articles challenge the idea of the state as an actor that effectively projects its authority onto the entire state territory.…”

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Transboundary processes and (re-)configurations of political space in the Caucasus

Smolnik

Weiss

2017

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Re-visiting the "territorial trap, " the introduction reviews approaches that have substantially addressed Agnew's critique, such as in transnational scholarship, governance research, border studies, and critical study of statehood. With its past and present complexities, the Caucasus provides ample empirical opportunity to study processes of de-and re-territorialization. Yet, beyond state-centrist and classical grand geopolitical frames little attention has been paid to political space in the Caucasus. The introduction provides a literature review on prevalent approaches to political space in the Caucasus on space-, power-, and process-sensitive empirical research and suggests new research avenues. The article places the contributions to this special issue within theoretical context and assesses their contributions to the debate on political space in the Caucasus.

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Governing the local in the North Caucasus

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

Challenges for Governing Mountains Sustainably: Insights From a Global Survey

Transboundary processes and (re-)configurations of political space in the Caucasus

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