Author : Haruka Yanagisawa
Release : 2015-08-14
Genre : Nature
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Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia write by Haruka Yanagisawa. This book was released on 2015-08-14. Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Managing the commons—natural resources held in common by particular communities—is a complex challenge. How have Asian societies handled resources of this sort in the face of increasing marketization and quickly growing demand for resources? And how have resource management regimes changed over time, with state formation, modernization, development, and globalization? Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia brings clarity, detail, and historical understanding to these questions across a variety of Asian societies and ecological settings. Case studies drawn from Japan, Korea, Thailand, India, and Bhutan examine fisheries, forests, and other environmental resources held in common. There is a tendency to imagine that traditional communities had socially equitable and environmentally friendly systems for managing the commons, but natural resources in Asia were often under free-access regimes. Resource management developed in response to social and economic pressures, and the state has been at various times both a beneficial and a negative influence on the development of community-level systems of managing the commons. The chapters in this volume show that a simple modernist framework cannot adequately capture this process, and the institutional changes it involved.