Global perspectives on long term community resource management / editors, Ludomir R. Lozny and Thomas H. McGovern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lozny, Ludomir R., editor.

McGovern, Thomas Howatt, editor.

Series:

Studies in human ecology and adaptation ; v. 11.

Studies in human ecology and adaptation, 1574-0501 ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Overpopulation--Environmental aspects.

Overpopulation.

Commons--Management.

Commons.

Communities.

Physical Description:

x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The human past provides examples of long-term millennial and century-scale successes followed by undesired transitions ("collapse"), and rapid failure of collaborative management cooperation on the decadal scale. Management of scarce resources and common properties presents a critical challenge for planners attempting to avoid the "tragedy of the commons" in this century. Here, anthropologists, human ecologists, archaeologists, and environmental scientists discuss strategies for social well-being in the context of diminishing resources and increasing competition. The contributors in this volume revisit "tragedy of the commons" (also referred to as "drama" or "comedy" of the commons) and examine new data and theories to mitigate pressures and devise models for sustainable communal welfare and development. They present twelve archaeological, historic, and ethnographic cases of user-managed resources to demonstrate that very basic community-level participatory governance can be a successful strategy to manage short-term risk and benefits. The book connects past-present-future by presenting geographically and chronologically spaced out examples of communal-level governance strategies, and overviews of the current cutting-edge research. The lesson we learn from studying past responses to various ecological stresses is that we must not wait for a disaster to happen to react, but must react to mitigate conditions for emerging disasters.

Contents:

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 Americas 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

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

online edition:

ISBN:

9783030157999

3030157997

OCLC:

1117509085