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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Porro, Robert |
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Conference:
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Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge, the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Mt. Fuji, Japan |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-7 |
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Date:
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2013 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8952
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Sector:
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Land Tenure & Use
Social Organization |
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Region:
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South America |
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Subject(s):
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equity
kinship
networks
land tenure and use
IASC
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Abstract:
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"A comparative examination of trajectories of two communities in the Eastern Amazon
experiencing land struggles in the 1980s sheds light on factors triggering their differential
resource use patterns and contrasting ways in which social relations are manifested. While in one
case community institutions were able enhance local livelihoods and residents welfare,
institutions regulating resource-use in the other case have failed to establish rules for a
sustainable system. The examination of social relations over extended periods supports our
understanding of todays socioeconomic configurations in the two communities, and their
interaction with the environment. Improved land-use planning is seen to require a state of affairs
in which internal cooperation supersedes discord. Cooperation and agreement in one case, and
discord and individual orientation in the other resulted from social facts that marked the
communities during land occupation and subsequent state-supported land privatization.
Processes examined reflected the contrast between a background of hierarchical, subordinated
social relations, and a more egalitarian social structure. Todays discrepancies in land-use
trajectories and social life were traced back to attitudes and the agency of local residents as they
confronted socio-structural and ecological opportunities and constraints in the past."
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