Format:
1 online resource (527 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781138484818
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9781351050975
Series Statement:
Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management Series
Content:
This volume investigates how global players such as multinational companies and organizations affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global-local (glocal) world
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: on commons in a 'glocal' world: Linking local and global systems power processes... -- Rationale of the edited volume -- The Swiss commons and their theoretical legacy -- Issues of 'glocality' in commons studies -- European investments and their impact on the commons in the Global South -- Local responses to glocalisation -- Outline of the book -- Theoretical approaches: historical, causal-justice and institutional-political perspectives -- European examples from the past and present: levelled power, balanced bottom-up... -- European historical cases -- Contemporary European cases -- Features and effects of European investments in the commons in the Global South -- Land grabbing and the commons -- Mining and infrastructure -- Green enclosures -- Commons and international law -- Concluding remarks -- Untitled -- Part I Key reflections: New theoretical issues on the commons and their transformations -- 1 Shared ownership as a key issue of Swiss history: Common-pool resources, common property... -- The "Alte Eidgenossenschaft", the "Old Swiss Confederacy" -- In the beginning, there was cooperation for peace -- The commons-state - cooperative structures as foundations of politics and society -- Collective resources as a means of existence for private households -- The economic logic behind cooperative housekeeping: husbandry and austerity -- Marginalization and exclusion -- Inequality among equals -- Legitimation by way of redistribution -- Citizen-oriented administration -- Persistence beyond historical upheavals and revolutions -- References -- 2 Social causality of our common climate crisis: Towards a sociodicy for the Anthropocene
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9 From natural supply to financial yields: The common fields of the Bernese Civic Corporation since... -- Introduction -- Exclusive utilisation during the Ancien Régime -- Extension of utilisation - exclusivity of profits -- The "Burgersturm" and the abandoning of the burghers' exclusive financial gain -- The transformation of the common fields into building land -- The exploitation of the building land -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 Universal values and the protection of commons: Fighting corruption with bottom-up process in Mallorca -- Introduction -- Constitutionality as an analytical approach -- Methods -- A brief history of the island -- The tourist industry -- Corruption -- Constitutionality and the UNESCO platform: a discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- 11 Constitutionality and identity: Bottom-up institution building and identity among Coastal Sami in Northern Norway -- Introduction -- Theoretical considerations: the role of identity in constitutionality -- The setting: the Sami and fisheries in Northern Norway -- Norwegianisation and the development of the welfare state -- Identity politics in the context of resource conflicts -- Trigger for local identity development: the fishery crisis -- Losing the commons: legal demands and outcomes in the fisheries -- Creation and revitalisation of Coastal Sami identity -- Discussion and conclusion: constitutionality and identity -- Notes -- References -- 12 Swiss alpine pastures as common property: A success story of bottom-up institution-building in Sumvitg... -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Setting and characteristics of the case study -- Methodology -- Alpine pastures as a common-pool resource -- Traditional services of the alpine pastures -- The state's demand for "new" institutional services
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Multiple causes of climate change and vulnerability in the commons -- Crises have histories -- The precarity of sector by sector exploitation does not fall from the sky -- On causes of vulnerabilities: Weber, Douglas, Rose and risk under a changing sky -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Disruption, community, and resilient governance: Environmental justice in the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- The Anthropo-scenery -- Justice in considerations of the Anthropocene -- Disputing the term Anthropocene -- The embracers of Anthropocene -- Multiple-cenes? -- The Anthropocene, disruption, and environmental justice -- Disruption and disequilibria -- Nixon's slow violence -- Disruption and detachment -- Form and experience of environmental injustice -- Implications for the intersection of environmental justice, the Anthropocene, and environmental governance of commons -- References -- 4 A definition of the commons, between human rights, resistance, and social change -- Introduction -- The evolution of the debate about the commons -- Legal definition of the commons: human rights beyond property -- Definition of the commons 'around the world': the data from 'Remix the Commons' -- Defending, claiming and creating the commons -- Urban and other new commons -- Gender and commons -- Human rights, resistance and social change -- Notes -- References -- 5 Towards a new institutional political ecology: How to marry external effects, institutional change... -- Introduction -- 'Core thinking' in political ecology -- Trying to locate the issue of power -- PE and the ontological, epistemological and posthumanist turn -- New institutionalism in social anthropology: commons between transaction costs and power relations -- Historical changes of ontologies and epistemologies of the meaning of land -- Ontology of the meaning of land in pre-colonial contexts
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Senhuile in Senegal (Case ID in LM database: #3433)
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The colonial and post-colonial disconnect -- The present-absence of the state and the paradox of neo-liberalism -- Case study from Zambia: irrigation on the former pasture -- Discussion: towards a new institutional political ecology -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part II European examples from past and present -- 6 Common challenges, different fates. The causal factors of failure or success in the commons... -- Introduction -- The Campine versus the Brecklands -- Common pool institutions: formal versus informal -- Seven design principles defined by Elinor Ostrom (1997) -- Social barriers and political monopolies -- Access, inclusion and collective choice arrangement -- Collective management and abidance by the rules -- Collective management and action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 For the common good: Regulating the Lake Constance fisheries from 1350 to 1800 -- Introduction -- Lake Constance and its surroundings -- Legal and institutional foundations of the fisheries -- Resource management -- Measuring effectiveness? -- Notes -- References -- 8 The commons in highland and lowland Switzerland over time: Transformations in their organisation... -- Introduction -- The continuing diversity in the very existence of common land in lowland and upland Switzerland -- The legal basis for the rights related to commons up to the beginning of the nineteenth century -- Regulations for sustainable use -- Restricting the allocation of resources -- Limiting the group of users -- Communal dualism: the lengthy process of resolving the issue of rights -- The 'not entirely new' conception of communal dualism of the Helvetic Republic -- The exacerbation of conflicts -- The complex rights situation and the solutions arrived at to disentangle them -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
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The local CPR governance system in Sumvitg: a history of institutional change -- Emic perceptions explaining the institutional changes -- Abolition of the communal grazing practice on private land and a primary service of the traditional CPR institution -- Shift from yearly rotating positions to long term positions: the development of good leadership -- Structural changes: diversification of interests and ideologies -- Communal work: an indicator for ecological outcomes -- Bottom-up institution-building: creation of the Cooperaziun d'Alps in 2000 -- Discussion -- Emic perception of need of new institutions -- Participatory processes addressing power asymmetries -- Pre-existing institutions on which to build -- Outside catalysing agents creating neutral platforms -- Recognizing local knowledge and innovations -- Higher-level state recognition -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Features and effects of global (e.g. European) investments on commons in the world -- 13 Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on common-pool resources: Evidence from the Land Matrix -- Introduction -- What general patterns and processes characterize LSLA in the global South? -- Our source of information: the Land Matrix database -- Insights into broad patterns and frequent processes -- How do LSLAs impact on CPRs and common property regimes? -- To what extent are CPRs affected by LSLA, and what impacts have been observed? -- Evidence in the Land Matrix data that points to adverse impacts on CPRs -- Type of land acquired: previous landowners, land covers, and land uses -- Previous landownership -- Previous land cover -- Previous land use -- Combining information about previous land use and landownership and previous land use and land cover -- Insights into potential LSLA impacts from case studies reported in the LM database
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Print version Haller, Tobias The Commons in a Glocal World Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2019 ISBN 9781138484818
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