Making Commons Dynamic
With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future.
Focusing on commonisationdecommonisation as an analytical framework useful to examine and respond to changes in the commons, the chapter contributions explore how natural resources are commonised and decommonised through the influence of multi-level internal and external drivers, and their implications for commons governance across disparate geographical and temporal contexts. It draws from a large number of geographically diverse empirical cases 20 countries in North, South, and Central America and South- and South-East Asia. They involve a wide range of commons related to fisheries, forests, grazing, wetlands, coastal-marine, rivers and dams, aquaculture, wildlife, tourism, groundwater, surface freshwater, mountains, small islands, social movements, and climate.
The book is a transdisciplinary endeavour with contributions by scholars from geography, history, sociology, anthropology, political studies, planning, human ecology, cultural and applied ecology, environmental and development studies, environmental science and technology, public policy, Indigenous/tribal studies, Latin American and Asian studies, and environmental change and governance, and authors representing the commons community, NGOs, and policy. Contributors include academics, community members, NGOs, practitioners, and policymakers. Therefore, commonisationdecommonisation lessons drawn from these chapters are well suited for contributing to the practice, policy, and theory of the commons, both locally and globally.
Prateep Kumar Nayak is Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada.
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Making Commons Dynamic
Understanding Change Through Commonisation and Decommonisation
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Contents
PART I
Introduction: Setting the scene
Prateep Kumar Nayak and Fikret Berkes
PART II
Roots of decommonisation
Patricia Dorn and Simron JIT Singh
Jeremy Pittman
Vipul Singh
PART III
What enables commonisation?
Eranga Kokila Galappaththi and Iroshani Madu Galappaththi
Gabriela Lichtenstein and Carlos Cowan Ros
Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins
Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado
PART IV
Commonisation and decommonisation as parallel processes
Xavier Basurto and Alejandro Garca Lozano
Sherman Farhad
Craig A. Johnson
Daniel KLOOSTER and James Robson
Sergio Villamayor-Toms and Gustavo Garca-Lpez
Shah RAEES Khan and C. Emdad Haque
PART V
Closing
Derek Armitage, Evan J. Andrews, Jessica Blythe, Ana Carolina E. Dias, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Jeremy Pittman and Sajida Sultana
Prateep Kumar Nayak
Prateep Kumar Nayak is Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada. Prateeps academic background is in political science, environmental studies, and international development. He does interdisciplinary work with an active interest in combining social and ecological perspectives. Prateeps research focuses on the understanding of complex humanenvironment connections (or disconnections) with particular attention to change, its drivers, their influence and possible ways to deal with them. His main research interests include commons, environmental governance, socialecological system resilience, environmental justice, and political ecology. In the past, Prateep worked as a development professional in India on issues around community-based governance of land, water, and forests commons, focusing specifically at the interface of research, implementation, and public policy. Prateep is a lead author for IPBES Global Assessment of Sustainable use of Wild Species and a member of the Human Dimensions Working Group, Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR). Prateep was the co-chair of the 2015 Biennial Conference International Association for the Study of the Commons. He is a past Trudeau Scholar, a Harvard University Fellow in Sustainability Science, and a recipient of Canadas Governor General Academic Gold Medal. Prateep is also the Project Director of Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) Global Partnership for building strong small-scale fisheries.
