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Acheson, James M. 1989. "Management of common-property resources," in Economic anthropology. Edited by Plattner, Stuart, pp. 487. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
ACSC Keywords: common property, resource management, management, Hardin, open access, tragedy of the commons |
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Adger, W. Neil and Luttrell, Cecilia. 2000. Property rights and the utilisation of wetlands. Ecological Economics 35:75-89.
Author's Keywords: common property, wetlands, indonesia, Vietnam, mangroves, multiple use resources, privatisation ACSC Keywords: management, ecosystem services, systems, people |
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Agrawal, Arun. 2003. Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: Context, methods, and politics. Annual Review of Anthropology 32:243-262.
Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, sustainability, institution |
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Anderies, John M., Janssen, Marco A., and Ostrom, Elinor. 2004. A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective. Ecology and Society 9.
ACSC Keywords: common property, governance, institutions, disturbance, resilience, social-ecological systems |
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Andersson, Krister P. 2003, 2004. Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance. World Development 32:233-249.
Author's Keywords: decentralization, collective action, forestry, Bolivia, municipal government, Latin America ACSC Keywords: common property, policy, governance |
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Ashenafi, Zelealem Tefera and Leader-Williams, N. 2005. Indigenous common property resource management in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Human Ecology 33:539-563.
Author's Keywords: Ethiopia, common property resources, indigenous resource managementn institutions, Qero system, Guassa |
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Beckerman, S. and Valentine, P. 1996. On native American conservation and the tragedy of the commons. Current Anthropology 37:659-661.
ACSC Keywords: common property, management, conservation, Native American, American Indian |
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Bennett, James and Barrett, Hazel. 2007. Rangeland as a common property resource: Contrasting insights from communal areas of central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. 35:97-112.
Author's Keywords: South Africa, livestock, common property regime, rangeland, grazing management |
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Berkes, Fikret. 2004. Rethinking community-based conservation. Conservation Biology 18:621-630.
Author's Keywords: scale, common property, Community-based Conservation, social-ecological systems, participation, comanagement, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge ACSC Keywords: development, indigenous knowledge |
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Berkes, Fikret and Turner, Nancy J. 2006. Knowledge, learning and the evolution of conservation practice for social-ecological system resilience. 34:479-494.
Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, conservation, institutions, indigenous knowledge, resilience, traditional ecological knowledge, adaptive learning |
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Colchester, Marcus and MacKay, Fergus. 2004. "In Search of Middle Ground: Indigenous Peoples, Collective Representation and the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent." Draft paper for the 10th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2004
Author's Keywords: representation, collective rights, Indigenous peoples, free prior and informed consent ACSC Keywords: common property, India, indonesia, Guyana, Venezuela |
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Diaw, Mariteuw Chimere. 1998. From sea to forest: An epistemology of otherness and institutional resilience in nonconventional economic systems. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
ACSC Keywords: common property, sustainability, sustainable development, Multiple commons, Theory Anthropology, Governance and Public Policy |
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Feeny, D., Berkes, F., McCay, B. J., and Acheson, J. M. 1990. The tragedy of the commons: 22 years later. Human Ecology 18:1-19.
Author's Keywords: common property, wildlife, forests, sustainable development, fisheries, co-management, grazing lands, water resources ACSC Keywords: resource management, Hardin, commons, resource use |
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Fernandez-Gimenez, M. E., Huntington, H. P., and Frost, K. J. 2006. Integration or co-optation? Traditional knowledge and science in the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee. 33:306-315.
Author's Keywords: common property, common pool resources, indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, co-management, environmental impact assessment, cooperative research |
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Folke, C. and Berkes, F. 1995. "Mechanisms that link property rights to ecological systems," in Property Rights and the Environment: Social and Ecological Issues. Edited by Hanna, S. and Munasinghe, pp. 121-138. Washington, D.C.: Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics and The World Bank.
ACSC Keywords: common property resources, social adaptation, environmental feedback, social capital |
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Fortmann, L. 1996. Bonanza! The unasked questions: Domestic land tenure through international lenses. Society & Natural Resources 9:537-547.
Author's Keywords: common property, gender, community management of resources, customary tenures, land concentration, land tenure |
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Freeman, Milton M. R. 1989. "Graphs and gaffs: A cautionary tale in the common-property resources debate," in Common Property Resources: Ecology and community-based sustainable development. Edited by Berkes, F., pp. 92-109. London: Belhaven Press.
ACSC Keywords: scale, common property resources |
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Garaway, Caroline. 2006. Enhancement and entitlement—The impact of stocking on rural households' command over living aquatic resources: A case study from the Lao PDR. Human Ecology 34:655-676.
Author's Keywords: common property, institutions, Fisheries enhancement, entitlements, stocking, Lao PDR |
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Hardin, Garrett. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science 162:1243-1248.
ACSC Keywords: common property, resource management, open access, property rights, commons, use |
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Hirsch, P. "Holding and managing resources in common: Issues of scale in Mekong development," in , pp. 1-11. Sydney.
ACSC Keywords: scale, common property, governance, Mekong Basin |
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Hockley, N. J., Jones, J. P. G., Andriahajaina, F. B., Manica, A., Ranambitsoa, E. H., and Randriamboahary, J. A. 2005. When should communities and conservationists monitor exploited resources?. Biodiversity and Conservation 14:2795-2806.
Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, Madagascar, locally-based monitoring, Participatory monitoring, common property resources, crayfish, efficiency, mark-and-recapture, non-timber forest products, power analysis, sustainable harvesting, willingness to pay ACSC Keywords: management, CBC, Community-based Conservation, biodiversity, africa, institutions, protected areas, monitoring and evaluation, commons |
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Horning, N. R. 2000. Explaining compliance with rules governing common-pool forest resource use and conservation: Dynamics in Bara Country, Southwestern Madagascar. Cornell University.
ACSC Keywords: common property, conservation, africa, forests, Madagascar, resource use, compliance, rules, Analavelona |
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Horowitz, L. 1998. Integrating indigenous resource management with wildlife conservation: A case study of Batang Ali National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Human Ecology 26:371-403.
Author's Keywords: conservation, parks, Malaysia, Sarawak, common property resource management ACSC Keywords: parks, protected areas, indigenous, integrated conservation and development, ICDP, Batang Ai National Park, customary law |
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Johnson, Kris A. and Kristen C. Nelson. 2004. Common property and conservation:The potential for effective communal forest management within a national park in Mexico. Human Ecology 32:703-733.
Author's Keywords: common property, conservation, forest management, Mexico ACSC Keywords: parks, protected areas, Lagunas de Montebello National Park, Chiapas |
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Klooster, D. 1999. Community-based forestry in Mexico: Can it reverse processes of degradation?. Land Degradation & Development 10:365-381.
Author's Keywords: common property, Community-based Conservation, political ecology, forestry, Mexico, co-management, corruption, forest degradation ACSC Keywords: management, policy, collective action, sustainable development |
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Lovell, Chris, Mandondo, Alois, and Moriarty, Patrick. 2002. The question of scale in integrated natural resource management. Conservation Ecology 5.
Author's Keywords: community-based natural resource management, common property management, devolution, going to scale, integrated catchment management, integrated natural resource management, integrated water resource management, participatory watershed development, spatial scale, temporal scale, scaling-out, scaling-up ACSC Keywords: scale, common property |
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Lu, Flora E. 2001. The common property regime of the Huaorani indians of Ecuador: Implications and challenges to conservation. Human Ecology 29:425-447.
Author's Keywords: common property, conservation, Amazon, Indigenous peoples, Huaorani |
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Luoga, E. J., Witkowski, E. T. F., and Balkwill, K. 2005. Land cover and use changes in relation to the institutional framework and tenure of land and resources in Eastern Tanzania Miombo Woodlands. Environment, Development and Sustainability 7:1-22.
Author's Keywords: management, sustainability, common property regime, institutional capacity building, socio-political ACSC Keywords: deforestation, local people, Tanzania, participatory rural appraisal, forest reserves, ownership rights |
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Magome, Hector and Murombedzi, James C. 2003. "Sharing South African National Parks: Community land and conservation in a democratic South Africa," in Decolonizing nature: Strategies for conservation in a post-colonial era. Edited by Adams, W. M. and Mulligan, M., pp. 108-134. London: Earthscan.
ACSC Keywords: national parks, validation of land claims, common property rights, Kruger National Park, conservation and development initiatives, CDIs, Trans-national protected areas |
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Mansfield, Becky. 2004. Neoliberalism in the oceans: "Rationalization," property rights, and the commons question. GEOFORUM 35:313-326.
Author's Keywords: common property, fisheries, neoliberalism, privatization, Pacific Ocean, environmental regulation |
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May, Peter H. 1992. "Common property resources in the neotropics: Theory, management progress, and an action agenda," in Conservation of neotropical forests: Working from traditional resource use. Edited by Redford, K. H. and Padoch, C., pp. 359-378. New York: Columbia University Press.
ACSC Keywords: forests, South America, Brazil, common property resources |
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McCay, Bonnie J. and Jentoft, Svein. 1998. Market or community failure? Critical perspectives on common property research. Human Organization 57:21-29.
Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, environmental policy, embeddedness ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, organizations |
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McCusker, Brent. 2004. Land use and cover change as an indicator of transformation on recently redistributed farms in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Human Ecology 32:49-75.
Author's Keywords: South Africa, land use change, land reform, communal property associations, limpopo province ACSC Keywords: common property, ecology, africa, deforestation, Uganda, livelihood, land use, dynamics, land tenure, population-growth, climate, forces, Limpopo |
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Muttenzer, Frank. 2002. Local government and the international biodiversity regime collective bargaining over state forests in Madagascar.
ACSC Keywords: common property, biodiversity, governance, africa, decentralization, forests, Madagascar, natural resources |
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Olson, Julia. 2006. Changing property, spatializing difference: The sea scallop fishery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Human Organization 65:307-318.
Author's Keywords: common property, property rights, fisheries management, fisheries anthropology, new bedford massachusetts ACSC Keywords: management, comanagement, rights, chaos, icelandic cod fishery, per-recruit analysis, placopecten-magellanicus |
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Olsson, Per and Folke, Carl. 2001. Local ecological knowledge and institutional dynamics for ecosystem management: A study of lake Racken Watershed, Sweden. Ecosystems 4:85-104.
Author's Keywords: common property, resilience, comanagement, adaptive management, local knowledge, crayfish, fishing association, response to crisis, local institutions, nested institutions, linked social-ecological systems, adaptive capacity |
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Ostrom, Elinor and Whitaker, Gordon. 1973. Does local community control of police make a difference? Some preliminary findings. American Journal of Political Science 17:48-76.
ACSC Keywords: common property, community, local, policing, control |
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Parlee, Brenda, Berkes, Fikret, and Gwich'in, Teetl'it. 2006. Indigenous knowledge of ecological variability and commons management: A case study on berry harvesting from Northern Canada. Human Ecology 34:515-528.
Author's Keywords: common property, institutions, indigenous knowledge, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge, land use, Dene, Gwich’in, cranberry, blueberry, cloudberry |
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Poteete, Amy R. and Ostrom, Elinor. Heterogeneity, group size and collective action: The role of institutions in forest management.
ACSC Keywords: common property, policy, institutions, collective action, sustainable management |
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Quinn, Claire H., Huby, Meg, Kiwasila, Hilda, and Lovett, Jon C. 2007. Design principles and common pool resource management: An institutional approach to evaluating community management in semi-arid Tanzania. Journal of Environmental Management 84:100-113.
Author's Keywords: common pool resources, natural resource management, institutions, common property regimes ACSC Keywords: conservation, governance, forestry, participatory rural appraisal, property, sub-saharan africa, challenges |
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Ramiarison, Claudine and Razafindrakoto, Tina Eva. 2004. Les contrats sociaux traditionnels (dina) et le transfert de destion des ressources naturelles renouvelable (GELOSE): Une alliance cle pour la conservation et le developpement durable a Madagascar. Policy Matters :242-248.
ACSC Keywords: common property, resource management, management, conservation, africa, decentralization, Madagascar, French, l'Afrique, gestion, gestion communautaire, française |
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Ruttan, L. M. 1998. Closing the commons: Cooperation for gain or restraint?. Human Ecology 26:43-66.
Author's Keywords: common property, indonesia, cooperation, marine tenure, trochus ACSC Keywords: management, prey choice, group selection, marine, indonesia, Asia, commons, fisheries, information, tenure, evolution, tit-for-tat, reciprocal altruism, prisoners-dilemma, hunters |
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Schlager, Edella and Ostrom, Elinor. 1992. Property-rights regimes and natural-resources: A conceptual analysis. Land Economics 68:249-262.
ACSC Keywords: common property, management, common-property resources, externalities, fishery, property-rights regimes, collective-choice actions, lobster fisheries |
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Smith, Eric Alden and Wishnie, Mark. 2000. Conservation and subsistence in small-scale societies. Annual Review of Anthropology 29:493-524.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, sustainability, collective action, common property resources ACSC Keywords: common property, biodiversity, population, prey choice, indigenous, ecosystems, behavioral ecology, human carrying-capacity, solomon-islands, intensification |
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Tanner, Adrian. 2007. On understanding too quickly: Colonial and postcolonial misrepresentation of indigenous Fijian land tenure. Human Organization 66:69-77.
Author's Keywords: common property, collective rights, land tenure, Fiji, individual rights |
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Toni, Fabiano and Holanda, Evandro, Jr. 2008. The effects of land tenure on vulnerability to droughts in Northeastern Brazil. Global Environmental Change 18:575-582.
Author's Keywords: Brazil, common property resources, semi-arid, Caprinoculture, Vulnerability to climate change |