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Historical Analysis of Institutional Resource Regimes in Switzerland: A Comparison of the Cases of Forest, Water, Soil, Air, and Landscape

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dc.contributor.author Kissling-Näf, Ingrid en_US
dc.contributor.author Varone, Frederic en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:37:41Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:37:41Z
dc.date.issued 2000 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-15 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-15 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1551
dc.description.abstract "The increased use of goods and services based on natural resources--be it in the form of raw materials for production or goods for direct consumption, as a sponge for the absorption of pollutants, as an immaterial consumer commodity or ecological services for a biological system--have resulted in competing use, increasing scarcity and destruction of resources. The use of such threatened resources can be institutionally influenced and managed with the help of Institutional Resource Regimes (IR). Accordingly, there is a need for studies on institutional change and for information on the generation and alteration of IRs and the effects of different IRs on the actual use of resources. "As we understand it, an IR is a combination of factors such as formal property and use rights (= regulative system) and the prominent programme elements of resource-specific protection and/or use policies (= policy design), whose policy design comprises specific aims with respect to protection and use, intervention instruments, actor arrangements etc. "The paper examines if and how regimes adjust to changes in the structures of users as well as to increased use of resources and to scarcity. By comparing the historical development of IRs for five resources (forest, water, land, air and landscape) in Switzerland, we gain initial insights into the triggers of the emergence and changes of IRs. It is particularly important to identify the transition periods, i.e. those historical moments when the IR actually changed, as well as the entire development trajectories of the IR for a specific natural resource. Thus, the empirical studies will concentrate on the changes in the central elements of the policy design and property and use rights. "Methodologically, the diachronic study for each resource will combine legal (which property rights?), policy (which protection and uses policies?), economic (which goods and services?) and scientific (which evolution of the stock of the resource?) analyses. By applying the outlined theoretical framework, we propose to examine the interaction and interlinkages of property and use rights and the relevant public policies. The purpose is also to develop the theoretical framework and to integrate institutional aspects in political guidance theory. The analysis of IRs also provides intial information about the time frame we should respect for a diachronic analysis. Furthermore, the comparison of IRs over time will offer a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between various resource uses, property and use rights, public policies and factors in the political context generating IR shifts." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject institutional analysis en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.subject governance and politics en_US
dc.subject property rights--policy en_US
dc.subject scarcity en_US
dc.title Historical Analysis of Institutional Resource Regimes in Switzerland: A Comparison of the Cases of Forest, Water, Soil, Air, and Landscape en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Switzerland
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources 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 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Bloomington, Indiana, USA en_US
dc.submitter.email hess@indiana.edu en_US


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