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Author : Robert McC. Netting
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981-10-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521237432
Author : Pier Paolo Viazzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521306638
This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental factors in shaping family forms and community structures. Although its foundation lies in a long period of anthropological fieldwork conducted in an Alpine community, Upland Communities relies on the methods and conceptual tools of historical demography. Combined with a long-term historical perspective, its broad comparative approach unveils an unexpected diversity in regional and spatial demographic patterns and questions a number of deep-rooted but ultimately misleading notions concerning mountain society and its alleged backwardness in the past.
Author : Albert Weale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191507557
This book offers a theory of democratic justice. According to the theory, justice emerges from collective agreement among political associates who enjoy approximate equality of power. Such situations can be seen as social contracts, and we find an empirical model for social contracts in the examples of successful common property resource regimes. In these regimes, participants craft collective rules of access to the means of production on an equal basis and producers are entitled to the full fruits of their labour. To interpret this theoretically an account of practical rationality in terms of individual and public deliberation is required. In tracing the move from small scale to large scale societies, three important transformations become apparent: in political institutions; in the economy; and in the functions of the household. All are relevant to the understanding of justice. In great societies representative parties making policy and law in shifting coalitions in parliaments elected by proportional representation exemplify political equality and so instance one form of democratic justice. In the economy corporate hierarchies modify the full fruits principles, not always in the direction of justice. Redistribution is justified as a means of smoothing income across the life-cycle, rather than by appeal to economies of scale or a simple principle of need. The sense of democratic justice requires commitment to the maintenance of those institutions that protect common interests, whilst acknowledging where there are differences of interest. This sense of democratic justice needs to be upheld by effective governance.
Author : Anthony J. Amato
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793608369
This book examines the relationship between Ukraine’s Galician Hutsuls and the Carpathian landscape between 1848 and 1939. The author analyzes the intersections of ecology and culture in the history of the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on the region’s economy and biodiversity.
Author : Albert Weale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198853541
This volume offers an exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present.
Author : Derek Wall
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262534703
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability. The history of the commons—jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use—provides a useful context for current debates over sustainability and how we can act as “good ancestors.” In this book, Derek Wall considers the commons from antiquity to the present day, as an idea, an ecological space, an economic abstraction, and a management practice. He argues that the commons should be viewed neither as a “tragedy” of mismanagement (as the biologist Garrett Hardin wrote in 1968) nor as a panacea for solving environmental problems. Instead, Walls sees the commons as a particular form of property ownership, arguing that property rights are essential to understanding sustainability. How we use the land and its resources offers insights into how we value the environment. After defining the commons and describing the arguments of Hardin's influential article and Elinor Ostrom's more recent work on the commons, Wall offers historical case studies from the United States, England, India, and Mongolia. He examines the power of cultural norms to maintain the commons; political conflicts over the commons; and how commons have protected, or failed to protect ecosystems. Combining intellectual and material histories with an eye on contemporary debates, Wall offers an applied history that will interest academics, activists, and policy makers.
Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780309057387
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 71 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Author : Priscilla Copeland Reining
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000011364
This book on the important question of village viability arose from several organizational innovations. It presents the important experience of intensive village studies conducted by anthropologists and sociologists and describes it with the views of development economists and administrators.
Author : David Grinlinton,Prue Taylor
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004182646
This book offers a unique and thought provoking exploration of how property concepts can be substantially reshaped to meet ecological challenges. It takes the discussion beyond its traditional parameters and offers new insights into conceptualizing and justifying property systems, in an age of ecological consequences.
Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : Tobias Haller,Karina Liechti,Martin Stuber,François-Xavier Viallon,Rahel Wunderli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000367171
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.
Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : Chris Carroll,Thomas F. Crossley,John Sabelhaus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226126654
Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, with the goal of better capturing economic heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time to examine the way consumer expenditures are currently measured, and the challenges and opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures begins with a comprehensive review of current methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and describe how the United States’s current survey practices compare with those in other nations.
Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : Robert Dodgshon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030163617
This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare. Using an extensive amount of archival material drawn from the relevant regional archives, the book presents a great deal of fresh data. Its central theme is how such communities responded to the opportunities and challenges presented by the highly variegated environment of their setting. The view taken is that their strategies of exploitation stressed diversity and flexibility, mapping the highly varied ecologies and resource opportunities of their setting into these strategies by spreading livelihood and risk as widely as possible. This interpretative framework is developed across all the book's themes: landholding, arable and livestock sectors, use of the commons and, finally, how communities coped with climate-based risks. The book appeals to geographers, historians, environmental scientists and everyone interested in traditional farming communities and their long-term challenges.
