The Cost of Dividing the Commons: Overlapping Property Systems in Tonle Sap, Cambodia

dc.contributor.authorThol, Dina
dc.contributor.authorSato, Jin
dc.coverage.countryCambodiaen_US
dc.coverage.regionEast Asiaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-06T18:56:02Z
dc.date.available2015-04-06T18:56:02Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstract"This paper examines the political implications of dividing the commons through the case study of private fishing lots in the Tonle Sap Great Lake of Cambodia. The de facto private property in Tonle Sap lasted for over 100 years until the government abolished the system completely in March 2012. Unlike conventional studies of the commons which assume away the question of divisibility as too costly to be realistic, we argue that divided management occurs even when the cost is very high. This 'cost' is not merely economic, but also political. Our case study illustrates how this political cost is channeled through a network of influential people to maintain the resource system and how a private property on the commons can be demolished, also for political reasons."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalInternational Journal of the Commonsen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthMarchen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber1en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages261-280en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume9en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/9715
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectcommonsen_US
dc.subjectfisheriesen_US
dc.subjectproperty rightsen_US
dc.subject.sectorFisheriesen_US
dc.titleThe Cost of Dividing the Commons: Overlapping Property Systems in Tonle Sap, Cambodiaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyTheoryen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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