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Big Dams and Small Change: Common Property as an Adaptation to Political and Economic Change among Afro-Colombians in the Andes

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dc.contributor.author Ng'weno, Bettina en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:33:53Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:33:53Z
dc.date.issued 2000 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-04-06 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-04-06 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1036
dc.description.abstract "This paper will focus on the struggle to adapt to changing political and economic events in the creation of common property regimes by an Afro-Colombian community in the western Andes. Displaced from their traditional livelihood of gold mining by the creation of a hydro-electric dam, and limited by the subdivision of inherited private property, in 1989 Afro-Colombian campesinos created a community company for the management of planted and natural forest that constitutes part of a land reform settlement. Although making collective claims to the entire territory as a Black ethnic group, traditions of private property use, differing internal agendas, political limitations of the new constitution, and governing rules of land reform settlement affect how the community can and does organize itself and its property. As such, both macro and micro economic and political systems are closely interconnected in the community's ability and success in adapting to a changing environment." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject campesinos en_US
dc.subject community participation en_US
dc.subject forest management en_US
dc.subject dams en_US
dc.subject adaptation en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject water resources en_US
dc.title Big Dams and Small Change: Common Property as an Adaptation to Political and Economic Change among Afro-Colombians in the Andes en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region South America en_US
dc.coverage.country Colombia en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates May 31-June 4, 2000 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Bloomington, Indiana en_US
dc.submitter.email hess@indiana.edu en_US


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