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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Tyler, Stephen R. |
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Conference:
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Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, the Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Bali, Indonesia |
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Conf. Date:
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June 19-23, 2006 |
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Date:
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2006 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/837
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Theory
General & Multiple Resources |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
common pool resources--developing countries
participatory management--developing countries
poverty alleviation--developing countries
institutions--developing countries
rural affairs--developing countries
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Abstract:
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"Development projects aimed at rural poverty reduction and natural resource management typically focus on cultivated lands and private tenure institutions, despite the importance of common pool resources to the poor. One of the challenges of adopting a common property focus to poverty reduction practice is that, while the principles and theory of common property institutions are robust and well-documented, these institutions are difficult to build (or re-build) in typical situations of degraded and contested resources. Nor can the structure of legitimate and effective local institutions in one site be copied to another context. This paper briefly reviews the experience of 5 cases from varied contexts around the world, in which action research projects introduced new institutions intended to manage common property. Despite the diversity among the projects, participatory approaches led in all cases to an emphasis on greater collective tenure security for marginalized social groups, to community organization and institution-building for the management of common pool resources. These results are entirely consistent with criteria found in the commons literature. For practitioners intent on reproducing these results, the common procedural elements of each of the cases included: introduction of new information and analysis to different stakeholders; the meaningful participation of multiple stakeholders in assessing problems and responses as well as designing institutions for resource management; and systematic processes for shared learning. These procedural and attitudinal elements of good practice provide guidance to foster the broader introduction of common property institutions in rural poverty reduction programs."
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