The Strategy of the Commons: Transformations in the Meaning and Management of Communally Held Resources on Vella Lavella Island, Solomon Islands

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5606
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Solow, Jody
Conference:	Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the First Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Duke University, Durham, NC
Conf. Date:	September 27-30, 1990
Date:	1990
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5606
Sector:	Land Tenure & Use Social Organization
Region:	Pacific and Australia
Subject(s):	common pool resources land tenure and use social organization IASC
Abstract:	"Based on current research on Vella Lavella Island, Solomon Islands, the paper examines the ways in which external forces differently alter common property relations in three economically contrasting villages. In particular, it examines the ways in which social meanings of resources and property are transformed. As transformation proceeds, conflicting ideologies of property and 'ownership' between communities and ideological contradictions within communities emerge. The paper investigates the intensification of these conflicts and contradictions as Vella Lavellans attempt to construct a locally-initiated, island-wide plan to sustainably and equitably manage their terrestrial and marine resources."

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