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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Common property resources"”.
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Management of common property resources : intertemporal exploitation of village dams in Sri Lanka
Village dams in Sri Lanka are owned in common by the villagers and the water in them is used for in-situ public good purposes and for the irrigation of their private rice lands. The water resource of the dam is replenished every year by the runoff from its catchment during the monsoons. Within a …
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Management of common property resources : intertemporal exploitation of village dams in Sri Lanka
Village dams in Sri Lanka are owned in common by the villagers and the water in them is used for in-situ public good purposes and for the irrigation of their private rice lands. The water resource of the dam is replenished every year by the runoff from its catchment during the monsoons. Within a …
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Local institutions in common property resources: a case study of community-based watershed management in Northern Thailand
The influence of the Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin, 1968) polarizes policy on common property resources into bimodal prescriptions--the state on the one hand and the market on the other. This study of community-based watershed management (CBWM) in Northern Thailand examines local institutions as …
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Feeding India: Community Gardens and their Food Security Potential
… insecurity in India, especially the changes in common property resource management and land ownership rights. Because common property resources are supplementary and require less expensive inputs, they are cheap, easy to grow, and available during difficult times. Community gardening, as a form …
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Dead Fish: How Two Fish Kills in the White River Demonstrate Changes in the Historic Protection of the Commons in Indiana
Common property resources, often shortened to the commons, are natural resources meant to be accessible by all. In Indiana, an important part of the commons is the White River. Although the concept of the commons entered American intellectual spheres through the earliest European settlements and …
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Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda
… of `cultural stakes' in the conservation of common property resources that are more often that not at loggerheads with `economic stakes'.</p><p>The arguments in this dissertation are built over and contribute to three bodies of anthropological research: economic anthropology engaged in the …
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Women and land: acces to and use of land and natural resources in the communal areas of rural South Africa
… to access to and use of land and productive resources. Research has shown that the majority of rural households in South Africa derive significant proportions of their livelihoods from land-based activities, and that the value of common property resources associated with land, for example …
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
… (1) fundamental structural transformations in property and production relations resulting from promotion of an export-led growth model that typically transfers risks in the production process to poorer farming households; and (2) weakening and/or loss of social and physical buffers. The latter …
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Land tenure and rural livelihoods in Zambia: case studies of Kamena and St. Joseph
This study explores how land and natural resources in rural communities are accessed, used, and managed in livelihoods. In particular it examines first, crop field tenure, and livelihoods in natural resources. Second it explores factors that mediate access, use and control of land and natural …
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The theory of wasting assets with reference to the regulation and pricing of gold in the South African gold mining industry
… led to a 11 too rapid11 depletion of these · resources. The argument that H is the government's duty to intervene and extend the lives of the mines is· also queried •. A detailed examination of the South African· gold mining taxation formula attempts to show how this type of· government …
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To defend ourselves: common property management of forests in northern Thailand
… as important to integrate customary law, such as common property rights to forest lands, into the framework of national policy. However, while this is being recognized on a theoretical level, there have been few real attempts to incorporate customary land rights into national law. The purpose of …