| dc.contributor.author |
Moritz, Mark |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2016-11-14T21:11:58Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2016-11-14T21:11:58Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2016 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/10190 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
"In the literature on the commons, open access is considered the absence of a property regime and equated with a tragedy of the commons. However, a longitudinal study of mobile pastoralists in the Far North Region of Cameroon shows that open access is not the absence of rules and does not lead to a tragedy of the commons. Current theoretical models cannot explain this phenomenon of management of common-pool grazing resources in a situation of open access. Here I propose a new property regime – an open property regime – that solves this paradox. First, I will explain how open property regimes function as complex adaptive systems using our study of mobile pastoralists in Cameroon. Second, I will describe four other cases of pastoral systems with similar open property regimes. Finally, I discuss the key characteristics that these pastoral systems have in common and outline a new theoretical model of open property regimes." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
adaptive systems |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
common pool resources |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
complexity |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
open access |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
pastoralism |
en_US |
| dc.title |
Open Property Regimes |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Journal Article |
en_US |
| dc.type.published |
published |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Modeling |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.region |
East Asia |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.country |
Cameroon |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Grazing |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationjournal |
International Journal of the Commons |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationvolume |
10 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationpages |
688-708 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationnumber |
2 |
en_US |