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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Montoya-Greenheck, F. |
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Conference:
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Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Hyderabad, India |
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Conf. Date:
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January 10-14 |
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Date:
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2011 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7225
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation
Wildlife |
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Region:
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Central America & Caribbean |
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Subject(s):
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identity
community
participatory management
turtles
conservation
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Abstract:
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"I have based this paper on three years (2006-2010) of intermittent field work in the 'globalized' community of Junquillal on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, where the World Wildlife Fund commissioned me to help integrate endangered Leatherback marine turtle conservation efforts with community wellbeing as a strategy to help guarantee the sustainability of wildlife conservation. We defined community wellbeing as increasingly equitable access to community capitals, such that the people could satisfy their fundamental human needs and make use of new opportunities. Our research in this community, whose history and cultural composition make it a globalized rural community, where 'amenity migrants' from the Industrialized World have come to live amongst the local coastal residents, revealed the importance of identity as a motive force in the appropriate management of common property resources (CPR). Our principal contribution to advancing CPR management in this increasingly common 'global' setting, was in the methods we employed to foster the identification and appropriation of common interests within this diverse population. Some of these methods included the participatory reconstruction of a common history, the promotion of common spaces and motives for celebration, providing a common pool of pertinent information, and startling them with common visions of possible futures. These, we feel have contributed to improving their CPR management and to their own wellbeing."
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