Browsing by Author "Peluso, Nancy L."

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Ecological Patterns and the Property Status of Minor Forest Products in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
(1985) Peluso, Nancy L.; Jessup, Timothy C.
"Why are some forest products in Borneo held by villages as common property while others are owned more privately? We argue that these differences in property status reflect differences in the natural characteristics of tropical forest resources, specifically ecological patterns of spatial distribution (dispersed vs. concentrated) and temporal availability (predictable vs. unpredictable). Typical forest products are dispersed and unpredictable, and are owned as common property, while those exceptional resources that are concentrated and predictable tend to be privately owned. However, we also recognize that people's adaptations to particular, local circumstances can lead to property arrangements not explicable in terms of resource characteristics."
The Politics of Specificity and Generalisation in Conservation Matters
(2003) Peluso, Nancy L.
"In their article, 'Conservation as if Biological Diversity Matters,' the authors ask a question that has plagued conservation and development activists and scholars for decades now: How . . . can [the conflict between sustainable use and preservationist approaches to conservation] be eliminated, or at least minimised to enable a more effective conservation? And, in the time-honoured way of people committed to a particular solution who try to tackle this thorny question, they never deliver any realisable answers. Their own arguments, not to mention the general tone of the analysis, reveal the article as less a balanced examination of two perspectives and more a plea for the preservationist side."
Rights of Access to Upland Forest Resources in Southwest China
(1990) Menzies, Nicholas K.; Peluso, Nancy L.
"This paper looks at the ways in which changes in forest policy in China over the lst forty years have affected six villages in Songming County, Yunan Province. It emphasizes the importance of village and household research in understanding the ways which policies are implemented and their effects on patterns of development. Based on data gathering during an exercise in rural household surveys in Yunan, we suggest that an emphasis on controlling access to the resource may be less effective than providing incentives for communities to manage their resources, and that where incentives do exist, there is a real danger that bureaucratic procedures may stifle those incentives, a mounting to another set of controls."
Rights of Access to Upland Forest Resources in Southwest China
(1991) Menzies, Nicholas K.; Peluso, Nancy L.
"This paper looks at the ways in which changes in forest policy in China over the last forty years have affected six villages in Songming County, Yunnan Province. It emphasizes the importance of village and household research in understanding how policies are implemented and their effects on patterns of development. Based on data gathered during an exercise in rural household surveys in Yunnan, we suggest that an emphasis on controlling access to the resource may be less effective than providing incentives for communities to manage their resources, and that where incentives do exist, there is real danger that bureaucratic procedures may stifle those incentives, amounting to another set of controls."