Change and Adaptation in the Swiss Alps: Bargaining Processes and Rule Constitution in the Collective Alpine Farming

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Landolt, Gabriela
Conference:	Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
Location:	Hyderabad, India
Conf. Date:	January 10-14
Date:	2011
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7309
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	bargaining collective action Alps
Abstract:	"Netting (1976) and later Ostrom (1990) describe robust institutions in the collective management of common property pastures in Switzerland, which prevent a 'tragedy of the commons'. But what happens when conditions change? Two peasant institutions (cooperatives under public law) in two villages in the mountain district of Graubünden show how cooperation and adaptation becomes more difficult as changing factors increase. One peasant institution still manages to adapt, however the other institution faces collapse."

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