Agrawal, Arun. 1990. "Distribution of Decisionmaking Responsibilities Among Raikas: Commons as a Rational Response to Problems of Complexity." Presented at Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the first annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 27-30, 1990.

Abstract

"The research on which this paper is based focused on migrant shepherds, the Raikas, in semi-arid Rajasthan. This paper analyzes decision making among the Raika shepherds while they migrate. Through arriving at an understanding of decision-making amongst the shepherds, my research aims to accomplish two things. 1) Provide a support for the argument that the shepherd and herders make rational decisions. 2) Show where external interventions by policy-makers and development agencies will be more fruitful and effective."