Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

In: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation 11

In: Springer eBook Collection

In: Springer eBooks

In: Social Sciences

Abstract

Foreword -- Introduction -- The Tragedy of the Commons: A Theoretical Update -- Who is in the Commons? Defining Community and Management Practices in Long Term Natural Resource Management -- Managing risk through cooperation: Need-based transfers and risk pooling among the societies of the Human Generosity Project -- Trolls, Water, Time, and Community: Resource Management in the Mývatn District of Northeast Iceland -- Organization of high-altitude summer pastures: the dialectics of conflict and cooperation -- Large-Scale Land Acquisition as Commons Grabbing: A comparative analysis of six African case studies -- Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Resource Management in the Chad Basin -- Mollusk Harvesting in the Pre-European Contact Pacific Islands: investigating Resilience and Sustainability -- Environment and Landscapes of Latin America's Past -- Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Variability and Resiliency of Early Complex Societies in Mesoamerica -- The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management -- Identifying Common Pool Resources in the Archaeological Record: A Case Study of Water Commons from the North American Southwest