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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland - Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations (Paperback)
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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland - Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change
in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and
forests in Switzerland. The book focuses on the differences and
similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and
forms of commoners' organisations (corporations of citizens and
corporations) which have managed common property for several
centuries and have shaped the cultural landscapes of Switzerland.
At the core of the book are five case studies from the German,
French and Italian speaking regions of Switzerland. Beginning in
the Late Middle Ages and focusing on the transformative periods in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it traces the internal and
external political, economic and societal changes and examines what
impact these changes had on commoners. It goes beyond the work of
Robert Netting and Elinor Ostrom, who discussed Swiss commons as a
unique case of robustness, by analysing how local commoners reacted
to, but also shaped, changes by adapting and transforming common
property institutions. Thus, the volume highlights how
institutional changes in the management of the commons at the local
level are embedded in the public policies of the respective
cantons, and the state, which generates a high heterogeneity and an
actual laboratory situation. It shows the power relations and very
different routes that local collective organisations and their
members have followed in order to cope with the loss of value of
the commons and the increased workload for maintaining common
property management. Providing insightful case studies of commons
management, this volume delivers theoretical contributions and
lessons to be learned for the commons worldwide. This book will be
of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, natural
resource management and agricultural development.
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