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Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator? International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Anamika Sen,Curtis Atkisson,Charlie Schweik
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Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Steven M. Smith
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The Promise of Collective Action for Large-Scale Commons Dilemmas: Reflections on Common-Pool-Resource Theory International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Landon Yoder,Courtney Hammond Wagner,Kira Sullivan-Wiley,Gemma Smith
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Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Florian Brossette,Claudia Bieling,Marianne Penker
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Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jim Sinner,Marc Tadaki,Edward Challies,Margaret Kilvington,Paratene Tane,Christina A. Robb
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Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 John Stephen Lansing,Ning Ning Chung,Lock Yue Chew,Guy S. Jacobs
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Understanding Collective Action from Mexican Fishers’ Discourses: How Fishers Articulate the Need for the State Support and Self-Governance Capabilities International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Crisol Méndez-Medina,Alejandro García-Lozano,Amy Hudson Weaver,Salvador Rodríguez Van Dyck,María Tercero,Mateja Nenadovic,Xavier Basurto
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The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Elia Carceller-Sauras,Insa Theesfeld
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Integrating Institutions with Local Contexts in Community-Based Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Variables, Combinations, and Effects International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Raymond Yu Wang,Tipeng Chen
The literature on common-pool resources (CPRs) has mostly focused on institutional conditions for successful governance of the commons. However, many scholars have emphasized that the explanatory power of institutional variables per se is limited and that institutions should not be isolated from the context in which they operate. Consequently, the success of CPR governance requires a more nuanced understanding
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Securing the Commons in India: Mapping Polycentric Governance International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Ruth Meinzen-Dick,Rahul Chaturvedi,Sandeep Kandikuppa,Kaushalendra Rao,Jagdeesh Puppala Rao,Bryan Bruns,Hagar ElDidi
Common pool land and water resources in India play vital, but often overlooked, roles in livelihoods and ecosystem services. These resources are subject to the authority of various government departments and are often managed in ways that result in uncertain tenure for the people who depend on these resources for fodder, fuel, water, and other products. An Indian NGO, the Foundation for Ecological
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Identifying Topics and Trends in the Study of Common-Pool Resources Using Natural Language Processing International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Joshua Lambert,Graham Epstein,Jennifer Joel,Jacapo Baggio
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Social-Ecological Institutional Fit in Volunteer-Based Organizations: A Study of Lake Management Organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin, U.S.A. International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Dane Whittaker,Alise Crippen,Corinne Johnson,Marco A. Janssen
How do the social and ecological attributes of social-ecological systems enable outcomes of those systems? The high concentration of lake organizations in northern USA enables us to study social, institutional, and ecological attributes that correlate with performance of common pool resource governance—institutional fit. In the summer of 2019, we performed an in-depth comparative study of thirty-one
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Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Maurice Paulissen,Roy Van Beek,Serge Nekrassoff,Edward H. Huijbens,Theo Spek
Commercialisation of resources taken from commons is considered problematic in several ways in traditional commons scholarship. In particular common-pool resource (CPR) theory argues that institutions for collective action such as commons are largely autonomous, experiencing little influence from either the market or the state, and focusing only on the needs of entitled (local) communities. Consequently
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Assessing Policy Issue Interdependencies in Environmental Governance International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Johanna Hedlund,Örjan Bodin,Daniel Nohrstedt
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Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Arthur Feinberg,Amineh Ghorbani,Paulien Herder
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Early Medieval Commons? Or How the History of Early Medieval Europe Could Benefit from a Necessary Conversation: The Case From NW Iberia International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Álvaro Carvajal Castro
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Open Source Hardware, Exploring how Industry Regulation Affects Knowledge Commons Governance: An Exploratory Case Study International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Pascal Carpentier
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Symmetries and Asymmetries in Collective Management: Comparing Effects on Resilience and Rural Development in Galician Common Lands and the Brazilian Extractive Reserves International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Roseni Aparecida de Moura,José Ambrósio Ferreira-Neto,M. Mar Pérez-Fra,Ana Isabel García-Arias
This study aims to comparatively analyse cases involving Galician common lands (MVMC) in Spain and the Extractive Reserves (RESEX) in Brazil, from the new perspective of community resilience in sustainable rural development. We studied the role of the state in legal transformations regarding land use and management to understand changes in access to and use of common resources, as well as to describe
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Is the Formalization of Collective Tenure Rights Supporting Sustainable Indigenous Livelihoods? Insights from Comunidades Nativas in the Peruvian Amazon International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti,Blanca Begert,Miguel Angel Guerra Loza
After decades of activism by Indigenous Peoples and their allies, the need to formalize Indigenous land rights has received increasing global attention as a strategy to address climate change. Research has highlighted the compatibility between community forest management regimes and carbon sequestration, reiterating the essential role that securing Indigenous land tenure must play in forest-based climate
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Contested Commoning: Urban Fishing Spaces and Community Wellbeing International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Noëlle Boucquey,Jessie Fly
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Community Control in the Housing Commons: A Conceptual Typology International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Catherine Durose,Liz Richardson,Max Rozenburg,Matt Ryan,Oliver Escobar
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Collective Action Dilemmas at Cultural Heritage Sites: An Application of the IAD-NAAS Framework International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Enrico Bertacchini,Peter Gould
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Bundle of Rights Reversed: Anticommons in a Japanese Common Property Forest Due to Legalization International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Gakuto Takamura,Takashi Nishide,Yusuke Kanazawa,Masahide Hayashi
Commons studies have emphasized the importance of customary rights and informal institutions, arguing that if there is a gap between formal ownership titles and customary rights, then the latter must be respected. However, as customary practices weaken, the influence of state legal systems and registered titles becomes stronger. When the commons is registered under multiple co-owners’ names, the commoners
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The Courtesan Project and the Tawa’ifs’ Cultural Commons International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sohini Chanda,Archana Patnaik,Suhita Chopra Chatterjee
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Commons Management in Migrant Communities International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Godfreyb Ssekajja
This article examines whether (and why) migrant communities are less likely to support institutions for managing common pool resources. Focusing on Buvuma Island, which is situated in Uganda’s portion of Lake Victoria, I study the efforts at locally supporting forestry regulations among randomly selected communities. These communities have varying proportions of both immigrants and prospective out-migrants
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Institutional Contexts and Policy Discourses: A Case of Water Quality Governance in Lake Erie Basin International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Bereket Isaac,Rob C. de Loë
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Revealing the Foggara as a Living Irrigation System through an Institutional Analysis: Evidence from Oases in the Algerian Sahara International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Salem Idda,Bruno Bonté,Marcel Kuper,Hamidi Mansour
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Mechanism Design in Regional Arrangements for Water Governance International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Tomás Olivier
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Addressing Issues and Challenges in Managing Migratory Tuna Resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Fang Zhao,David Mapuru,Marie-France Waxin,Catherine Prentice,Annibal Scavarda
Tuna resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean are the world’s largest and most valuable fisheries of their type and are vital to the economy and the sustainable development of the region. However, the region witnesses a rapid decline in tuna resources and the depletion of species such as bigeye and yellowfin tunas, and overharvesting of the other species. This study investigated the collaborative
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Design Principles of Common Property Institutions: The Case of Farmer Cooperatives in the Upper West Region of Ghana International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jasper Grashuis,Stanley Kojo Dary
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Food Safety and Value Chain Coordination in the Context of a Transition Economy: The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Drini Imami,Vladislav Valentinov,Engjell Skreli
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Defining Success in the Commons: Addressing Problem Orientations, Multidimensionality, Norms, and Tradeoffs International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Allain J. Barnett, Stefan Partelow, Ulrich Frey, Alejandro García-Lozano, Maria Del Mar Mancha-Cisneros, Christoph Oberlack, Elicia Ratajczyk, Hillary Smith, Sergio Villamayor-Tomás, Charlotte K. Whitney
Commons and social-ecological systems research examines institutional arrangements for governing natural resources to improve social and ecological outcomes. However, no universal definition of success exists. We examine the CPR and SES synthesis literature to identify trends, gaps and challenges for examining success. We address: (1) gaps in the literature, (2) multidimensionality and tradeoffs, and
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Keeping Up Shared Infrastructure on a Port of Mars: An Experimental Study International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Marco A. Janssen, Lance Gharavi, Michael Yichao
In this study, we discuss Port of Mars, a new experimental design to study collective action problems in extreme environments under conditions of high uncertainty. The game is situated in the first-generation habitat on Mars, providing an engaging narrative for players to navigate collective action problems. This pilot study finds that most groups are able to avoid the collapse of the habitat, and
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Problem Framing Influences Linkages Among Networks of Collective Action Situations for Water Provision, Wastewater, and Water Conservation in a Metropolitan Region International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Evan M. Dennis, Eduardo Brondizio
Collective action problems are linked together when the outcomes of one collective action situation affect the working components of another. In San Diego, California, solutions to the collective action dilemmas of water provisioning, conservation, and wastewater were found to have influenced each other between 1990 and 2010. Building upon a database of water management-related action situation outcomes
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Toward an Integrated History to Govern the Commons: Using the Archive to Enhance Local Knowledge International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-02-18 Iago Vázquez
Communities that have used common-pool resources (CPRs) for generations often preserve a valuable ‘institutional memory’. It can be understood as a subset of local knowledge concerning strategies, norms, and rules used by the community to deal with CPR problems (e.g. overexploitation) in different time periods. Scholars have argued that institutional memory is useful in two aspects of CPR governance:
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Information Commons Between Enclosure and Exposure: Regulating Piracy and Privacy in the EU International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Martin Fredriksson
In the first decade of the 21s century, copyright was high on the political agenda as activists and academics criticised how stricter implementations of copyright laws limited the public access to culture and knowledge and enclosed the information commons. A decade later, streaming media and data mining have changed the information-political agenda, shifting the focus from piracy to privacy, giving
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Urban Commons as a Haven for the Excluded: An Experience of Creating a Commons in Seoul, South Korea International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 In Kwon Park,Jiyon Shin,Jin Eon Kim
The recent emergence of the “urban commons” is associated with the “exclusion” problems of modern cities, which are enmeshed in the mechanism that spatially excludes those who are incapable of paying the market prices. Cities are also tightly regulated by various government regulations that control people’s actions, and creative practices are often stifled. The excluded not only resist commercialization
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Property Rights: Long and Skinny International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Richard A. Epstein
This paper explores the relationship between private and common property. It starts with the state of nature, works its way through Roman law, and finishes with a discussion of the application of these principles in a modern context. It explains how the intensification of property use often leads to the need for a public trust doctrine for common pool assets, and explains why long and skinny assets
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Liberating Split Estates International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Tara Kathleen Righetti
The dominance of the severed mineral estate has been long been considered an axiomatic principal of oil and gas law. Within this paradigm, the split-estate mineral owner enjoys broad rights to use the surface estate as is reasonable and necessarily incident to mineral development. Dominance, accordingly, can be understood as exit: the right of the mineral owner to develop its subsurface property without
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Application of Natural Resources Property Theory to Hidden Resources International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Monika Ehrman
The visualization of property and resources is a defining foundation of the construction and application of a property rights framework. When humans encounter resources they cannot see — or hidden resources —, they have difficulties imagining an appropriate property regime. These hidden resources include subsurface resources (oil and gas reservoirs, groundwater, pore space), biological resources (migration
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‘We Are Not Bad People’- Bricolage and the Rise of Community Forest Institutions in Burkina Faso International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Mawa Karambiri,Maria Brockhaus,Jenniver Sehring,Ann Degrande
From a critical institutionalism and institutional bricolage perspective, this article analyses what drives institutional change in the commons and the outcomes for forest and people. It builds on the comparison of three neighbouring villages in Burkina Faso that in 1989, expecting higher returns, agreed to release their common lands for the creation of a community forest called Chantier d’Aménagement
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Factors Influencing the Development of Rural Producer Organizations in Post-War Settings. The Case of Coffee Growers Associations in Southern Tolima, Colombia International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Angela Navarrete-Cruz,Athena Birkenberg,Regina Birner
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Thinking about the Commons International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Carol M. Rose
This article explores current developments in theoretical thinking about the commons. It keys off contemporary reconsiderations of Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” and Elinor Ostrom’s response to Hardin in Governing the Commons and later work. Hardin’s idea of a “tragedy” has received much criticism, especially from Ostrom herself; but Ostrom’s own work has also raised some questions in more
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Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Services Across the Wildland-Urban Interface International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Robin Kundis Craig,J. B. Ruhl
Managing the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is a widely-recognized land use problem plagued by a fractured geography of land parcels, management jurisdictions, and governance mandates and objectives. People who work in this field have suggested a variety of approaches to managing this interface, from informal governance to contracting to insurance. To date, however, none of these scholars have fully
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Virtual Parceling International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Karen Bradshaw,Bryan Leonard
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An Introduction to “Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights” International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Karen Bradshaw,Billy Christmas,Dean Lueck
Property scholars have long explored how rights to land and resources influences their use and conservation. Over time, inquiry has turned towards the governance of competing claims. Simplistic models of rights are yielding to the social, political, and ecological realities of managing ecosystems amidst increased resource demands fueled by human population growth. Prior dichotomies between “human”
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Rethinking Scale in the Commons by Unsettling Old Assumptions and Asking New Scale Questions International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Hillary Smith,Xavier Basurto,Lisa Campbell,Alejandro Garcia Lozano
Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons scholarship. This paper reviews the origins and evolution of scalar thinking in commons scholarship in contrast with theories of scale in human geography and political ecology that focus on scale
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Portraying the Structure and Evolution of Polycentricity via Policymaking Venues International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Christopher M. Weible,Jill Yordy,Tanya Heikkila,Hongtao Yi,Ramiro Berardo,Jennifer Kagan,Catherine Chen
This paper portrays a polycentric governance system by exploring the evolution of its structure and the interdependencies of its policymaking venues. It utilizes a semi-automated approach developed from the institutional grammar to analyze four policymaking venues by their 55 public policies adopted from 2007 through 2019 in the context of oil and gas development in Colorado, USA. The results show
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Urban Commons in Active Mobility Experiences International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Silvia Cruz,Sonia Paulino
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A Community Management Plus Model for the Governance of Rural Drinking Water Systems: A Comparative Case Study of Pond Sand Filter Systems in Bangladesh International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Muhammad Badrul Hasan,Peter P. J. Driessen,Shantanu Majumder,Annelies Zoomers,Frank van Laerhoven
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Ostrom, Floods and Mismatched Property Rights International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Nick Cowen, Charles Delmotte
How societies can cope with flood risk along coasts and riverbanks is a critical theoretical and empirical problem – particularly in the wake of anthropogenic climate change and the increased severity of floods. An example of this challenge is the growing costs of publicly-funded flood defense in Britain and popular outcries during the regular occasions that the British government fails to protect
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Rights-Based Management, Competition, and Distributional Equity in Hawai‘i’s Largest Commercial Fishery International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Adam L. Ayers, Hing Ling Chan
Many global fisheries have transitioned to rights-based management to improve bioeconomic outcomes, but several fishing communities have experienced negative social impacts. Negative social impacts are often attributed to a focus on economic efficiency and resource sustainability, with less focus on the distributional equity among fishery participants. Among rights-based systems, limited entry has
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New Pressures, Old Foodways: Governance and Access to Edible Mopane Caterpillars, Imbrasia (=Gonimbrasia) Belina, in the Context of Commercialization and Environmental Change in South Africa International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 James George Sekonya, Nick J. McClure, Rachel P. Wynberg
Urbanization and scarce income-earning opportunities have led to increasing commercialization of non-timber forest products in southern Africa, including the nutritious mopane worm Imbrasia (=Gonimbrasia) belina. The mopane worm contributes substantially to incomes and food security in households across the region, but little research has addressed its use within South Africa. Using semi-structured
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Shared Patterns in Long-Term Dynamics of Commons as Institutions for Collective Action International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Mike Farjam, Tine De Moor, René van Weeren, Anders Forsman, Molood Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, Amineh Ghorbani, Giangiacomo Bravo
We present an analysis of regulatory activities in historical commons offering a unique picture of their long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis took into account almost 3,800 regulatory activities in eighteen European commons in two countries across seven centuries. Despite differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase
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Early Modern Reindeer Husbandry, Sami Economy, and Grazing Rights International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jesper Larsson, Eva-Lotta Päiviö Sjaunja
The main historic trajectory in property rights to land was the development of more exclusive rights by the dissolution of common property. In the Swedish lappmarks the opposite occurred, and by the end of the nineteenth century the old system with privately assigned land finally disappeared when Samis obtained lawful common user rights to large areas for reindeer herding. Earlier research focused
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Balancing Democracy with Service Delivery: Power Relations, Politics and Accountability in Cooperatives Supporting Emergent Livestock Farmers in South Africa International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Lovemore Christopher Gwiriri, James Edward Bennett
In South Africa, cooperatives are the primary institutions through which delivery of governmental agricultural support programmes for rural communities is realised. Although these cooperatives are governed by clear national guidelines that encourage transparency and accountability to their membership, in reality their ability to realise this may be compromised by an imperative to achieve service delivery
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Benefit Sharing for Solving Transboundary Commons Dilemma in Central Asia International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ilkhom Soliev, Insa Theesfeld
Transboundary water governance often represents challenges specific to the commons dilemma. Use of water in one country affects use in another country, yet dynamic and diverse political and socioeconomic factors coupled with relatively large size of a resource system that links not only other sectors such as land and energy but also crosses national jurisdictions make it particularly challenging for
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Governance and Deforestation: Understanding the Role of Formal Rule-Acknowledgement by Residents in Brazilian Extractive Reserves International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Mauro Guilherme Maidana Capelari, Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, Suely Mara Vaz Guimarães de Araújo, Peter Newton
Brazil has one of the most extensive and effective sets of deforestation control policies in the world. One of the main deforestation control policies implemented by the Brazilian government over the last 15 years has been the creation of an extensive system of protected areas, including extractive reserves. Our study addresses the challenges of reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We analyze
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Mixing Public and Private Agri-Environment Schemes: Effects on Farmers Participation in Quebec, Canada International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Alejandra Zaga-Mendez, Vijay Kolinjivadi, Jean-François Bissonnette, Jerome Dupras
Incentive-based mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being employed to encourage adoption of biodiversity conservation practices in agriculture. Farmers’ participation in a PES depends – amongst other factors – on their interactions with previous programs and schemes. This research analyses how the institutional characteristics and interactions of incentive-based
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Social Learning in Food Quality Governance – Evidences from Geographical Indications Amendments International Journal of the Commons (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Hanna Edelmann, Xiomara Fernanda Quiñones-Ruiz, Marianne Penker, Silvia Scaramuzzi, Kristina Broscha, Philippe Jeanneaux, Giovanni Belletti, Andrea Marescotti
Food producers can define collective quality standards and legally protect the origin, characteristics, traditions and the reputation of a place-based product through geographical indications (GIs). Producers, processors and other relevant actors in the GI production system codify and adapt their production rules via the GI Product Specification and possible amendments. Based on the Management and