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Communal forests are a unique land tenure system and comprise a singular legal category in Galicia. Their persistence over time demonstrates that this community-owned resource has overcome the “tragedy of the commons”, showing their capability to successfully develop self-governing institutions.
Local commons are underutilized in resource management models, thus limiting the effectiveness of the commons concept.
The Franks Tract State Recreation Area (Franks Tract) is an example of a complex contemporary park mired in ecological and socio-political contestation of what it is and should be.
This Special Issue contributes to the debate that land grabbing should be discussed as commons grabbing [...]
The topic of large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) has attracted wide interest in the literature and the media. However, there is little work on the gendered institutional changes and gendered impacts on common pool resources (CPR) due to LSLA. The aim of this paper is to address these impacts.
Recent debates in social anthropology on land acquisitions highlight the need to go further back in history in order to analyse their impacts on local livelihoods.
Cambodia has become a principal target of transnational (and domestic) land grabs over the past decade, mostly in the form of economic land concessions (ELCs). The northeastern part of the country—where the majority of Cambodia’s indigenous people reside—is a particular hotspot.
La Paz, Bolivia14 de noviembre de 2017
La Economía Social y Solidaria (ESS). Algunos cuestionamientos a sus marcos teóricos y a sus prácticas socioculturales en los últimos 10 años
Gilberto Vera Rojas
Resumen
Esta es la historia de la Comunidad Indígena Yvyratymi (Vega Cué), en Paraguay, que apenas logró recuperar una parte de su territorio, 205 hectáreas. Se trata de su retorno y el arraigo al territorio como el principio de la reconstrucción de su identidad y la armonía en sus vidas.