Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management
Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The hu
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Ludomir R. Lozny Thomas H. McGovern Editors
Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management With a Foreword by Carole L. Crumley
Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation Series editors Daniel G. Bates, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA Ludomir R. Lozny, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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Ludomir R. Lozny • Thomas H. McGovern Editors
Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management With a Foreword by Carole L. Crumley
Editors Ludomir R. Lozny Hunter College, CUNY New York, NY, USA
Thomas H. McGovern Hunter College, CUNY New York, NY, USA
ISSN 1574-0501 Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation ISBN 978-3-030-15799-9 ISBN 978-3-030-15800-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15800-2 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
This book examines the aspects of the contemporary and historic management of resources held in common. The very existence of such management strategies runs counter to the long-held assertion that they are obsolete and must be removed from local management and subjected to state, corporate, or other external controls. A brief look at the not-so-distant history of this view can provide context for this important volume. It may surprise some readers that the main point of Garrett Hardin’s 1968 Science article ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ is that overpopulation is the chief source of environmental degradation, not that communities are incapable of sustained management of the commons. At the time of its publication, the article was the focus of an
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