tragedy of the commons

Yet sweeping changes to protect the grasslands have been politically unpalatable in a democracy whose voters feel a deep connection to the open, unregulated grassland. With urbanization on the rise, herders also face new

tragedy of the commons Mongolian rangelands are subject to an 'open access' property regime. In the absence of land tenure and #collective-action, rangeland users will not invest in sustainable production as they stand to gain more from over-appropriation of the resource.