Degradation of the common property resources and challenges for livelihoods in western Haryana

Pages: 60-61
Dinesh Kumar (Independent Scholar, Geography, Ch. Dadri, Haryana)
Sandeep Kumar (Department of Geography, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Common property refers to the community resources due to having their collective ownership instead of individual rights. These resources in western Haryana are facing problems degradation because the absence of proper community ownership and economically viability. Greedy use of resources result in term of overexploitation which further leading to degradation and complete extinction. Increasing population has negative effect on common property resources vice versa cultivate probability of collective action. Democratic strengthening through grass root level democracy could be the new hope for the community based management of these resources.