The Commons in History - 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 The Commons in History write by Derek Wall. This book was released on 2014-03-07. The Commons in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
Blue Ridge Commons
Blue Ridge Commons - 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 Blue Ridge Commons write by Kathryn Newfont. This book was released on 2012. Blue Ridge Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.
Governing the Commons
Governing the Commons - 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 Governing the Commons write by Elinor Ostrom. This book was released on 2015-09-23. Governing the Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.
The Wealth of the Commons
The Wealth of the Commons - 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 The Wealth of the Commons write by David Bollier. This book was released on 2014-05-23. The Wealth of the Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of "progress" and governance. In short, how they've built their commons. In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources - often known as market enclosures - while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale - but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. "This fine collection makes clear that the idea of the Commons is fully international, and increasingly fully worked-out. If you find yourself wondering what Occupy wants, or if some other world is possible, this pragmatic, down-to-earth, and unsentimental book will provide many of the answers." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future
The Commons in a Glocal World
The Commons in a Glocal World - 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 The Commons in a Glocal World write by Tobias Haller. This book was released on 2019-04-30. The Commons in a Glocal World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption and societal reproduction. This volume bridges the two, addressing how global players affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global- local (glocal) world. Authors from a range of academic disciplines present research findings on recent developments on the commons, including: historical insights; new innovations for participatory institutions building in Europe or several types of commons grabbing, especially in Africa related to European investments; and restrictions on the management of commons at the international level. European case studies are included, providing interesting examples of local participation in commons resource management, while simultaneously showing Europe as a centre for globalized capitalism and its norms and values, affecting the rest of the world, particularly developing countries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including natural resource management, environmental governance, political geography and environmental history.
