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Political Economy Model of Common Property Regimes and the Case of Grazing Management in Zimbabwe

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dc.contributor.author Cousins, Ben en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:40:31Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:40:31Z
dc.date.issued 1992 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-09-24 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-09-24 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1895
dc.description.abstract "Conceptual frameworks for the analysis of common property regimes are important because they allow for the comparison of individual cases and generalisation across diversity. The framework proposed by Oakerson (1986) is critically examined and although many of its features arc useful and worth retaining, it is found to be inadequate in its treatment of the key issues, of power and authority, on the one hand, and of social and economic structure, on the other. Struggles over access to and control over common property resources often arise from structural inequalities which have to be made central to analysis. It also tends to neglect the importance of ecological dynamics and does not make sufficient provision for disjunctions between technical and ecological aspects. Modifications to the Oakerson model are suggested which allow for the analysis of these dimensions. This 'political economy' model of the commons is put to the lest by applying it lo the analysis of grazing management schemes in the Communal Lands of Zimbabwe. Detailed ethnographic data on the complexities of intra-community power struggles in one such scheme are briefly summarised, and the model is used to diagnose the underlying reasons for the problems which have emerged within this scheme." en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject grazing en_US
dc.subject Oakerson framework en_US
dc.subject institutional analysis--IAD framework en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.title Political Economy Model of Common Property Regimes and the Case of Grazing Management in Zimbabwe en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Zimbabwe en_US
dc.subject.sector Grazing en_US
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Inequality and the Commons, the Third Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates September 17-20, 1992 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Washington DC en_US
dc.submitter.email rshivakoti@yahoo.com en_US


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