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Beyond Harvests in the Commons: Multi-scale Governance and Turbulence in Indigenous/Community Conserved Areas in Oaxaca, Mexico

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dc.contributor.author Bray, David Barton
dc.contributor.author Duran, Elvira
dc.contributor.author Molina, Oscar
dc.date.accessioned 2012-09-10T14:35:15Z
dc.date.available 2012-09-10T14:35:15Z
dc.date.issued 2012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8350
dc.description.abstract "Some important elements of common property theory include a focus on individual communities or user groups, local level adjudication of conflicts, local autonomy in rule making, physical harvests, and low levels of articulation with markets. We present a case study of multi-scale collective action around indigenous/community conserved areas (ICCAs) in Oaxaca, Mexico that suggests a modification of these components of common property theory. A multi-community ICCA in Oaxaca demonstrates the importance of inter-community collective action as key link in multi-scale governance, that conflicts are often negotiated in multiple arenas, that rules emerge at multiple scales, and that management for conservation and environmental services implies no physical harvests. Realizing economic gains from ICCAs for strict conservation may require something very different than traditional natural resource management. It requires intense engagement with extensive networks of government and civil society actors and new forms of community and inter-community collection action, or multi-scale governance. Multi-scale governance is built on trust and social capital at multiple scales and also constitutes collective action at multiple scales. However, processes of multi-scale governance are also necessarily 'turbulent' with actors frequently having conflicting values and goals to be negotiated. We present an analytic history of the process of emergence of community and inter-community collective action around strict conservation and examples of internal and external turbulence. We argue that this case study and other literature requires an extensions of the constitutive elements of common property theory." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.subject community participation en_US
dc.subject conservation en_US
dc.subject multiple use en_US
dc.subject social capital en_US
dc.title Beyond Harvests in the Commons: Multi-scale Governance and Turbulence in Indigenous/Community Conserved Areas in Oaxaca, Mexico en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Central America & Caribbean en_US
dc.coverage.country Mexico en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal International Journal of the Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 6 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 151-178 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth August en_US


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