Securing The Commons In India Mapping Polycentric Governance

Author : Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Rao, Jagdeesh Puppala,Chaturvedi, Rahul,Rao, Kaushalendra,Bruns, Bryan Randolph,Kandikuppa, Sandeep,ElDidi, Hagar
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Securing the commons in India: Mapping polycentric governance by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Rao, Jagdeesh Puppala,Chaturvedi, Rahul,Rao, Kaushalendra,Bruns, Bryan Randolph,Kandikuppa, Sandeep,ElDidi, Hagar Pdf

Common pool land and water resources in India play vital, but often overlooked, roles in livelihoods and ecosystem services. These resources are subject to the authority of various government departments and are often managed in ways that result in uncertain tenure for the people who depend on these resources for fodder, fuel, water, and other products. An Indian NGO, the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), has developed a process for “commoning”—assisting communities to secure the commons by forming inclusive local institutions to manage the resources, and to work with different government departments to gain stronger rights to the commons. This paper applies polycentricity theory to examine the institutional arrangements that govern the commons in FES sites in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states and assesses relationships that may affect commons management. It draws on key informant interviews and village-level social network mapping exercises (Net-mapping) to show the complex flows of resources, information, and influence related to the commons among habitation-level organizations, local government, resource agencies, the rural employment guarantee program (MGNREGA), and NGOs. This paper discusses the potential of this methodology as a diagnostic tool to help understand community perceptions of the role of various stakeholders in overall governance of the commons, and can provide guidance for interventions to help communities to strengthen their tenure on the commons and management of those resources.

Author : Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1299445351

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Securing the Commons in India by Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick Pdf

Common pool land and water resources in India play vital, but often overlooked, roles in livelihoods and ecosystem services. These resources are subject to the authority of various government departments and are often managed in ways that result in uncertain tenure for the people who depend on these resources for fodder, fuel, water, and other products. An Indian NGO, the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), has developed a process for “commoning” -- assisting communities to secure the commons by forming inclusive local institutions to manage the resources, and to work with different government departments to gain stronger rights to the commons. This paper applies polycentricity theory to examine the institutional arrangements that govern the commons in FES sites in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states and assesses relationships that may affect commons management. It draws on key informant interviews and village-level social network mapping exercises (Net-mapping) to show the complex flows of resources, information, and influence related to the commons among habitation-level organizations, local government, resource agencies, the rural employment guarantee program (MGNREGA), and NGOs. This paper discusses the potential of this methodology as a diagnostic tool to help understand community perceptions of the role of various stakeholders in overall governance of the commons, and can provide guidance for interventions to help communities to strengthen their tenure on the commons and management of those resources.

Author : ElDidi, Hagar,Rawat, Shivanyaa,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Chaturvedi, Rahul
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Polycentricity and multi-stakeholder platforms: Governance of the commons in India by ElDidi, Hagar,Rawat, Shivanyaa,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Chaturvedi, Rahul Pdf

Commons governance is complex and polycentric, involving a range of actors, working at different scales with different concepts of ‘development’, and different types of power. Multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) have generated considerable attention as a way to address these tensions among multiple and overlapping decision-making centers operating on different administrative levels and scales. Yet establishing MSPs that effectively involve both community, government, and private sector actors is far from straightforward. This paper analyzes the Indian NGO Foundation for Ecological Security’s (FES) experience of strengthening polycentric governance through case studies of two MSPs in Gujarat and Odisha, at the block (subdistrict) level—a meso-level encompassing multiple communities situated around a commons landscape (hill range or small rivulet). By comparing local environments, institutional arrangements, stakeholder interactions, governance processes and the evolution of MSPs in the two states, it distills lessons on the tangible and intangible benefits of multi-stakeholder engagement, scale, and enabling conditions. We argue that the groundwork carried to build community level collective action supports effective polycentric governance of resources on the landscape level, especially through block-level MSPs that facilitate inter-community collaboration and learning, strengthening local voices and building trust between stakeholders over time. The cases also highlight that MSPs can evolve in different ways as the various actors interact and aim to influence the agenda. External actors like NGOs thus play an important role as facilitators and through mobilizing communities to help them claim their agency.

Author : Jhaveri, N.J.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Is there responsible gendered governance of forest tenure? Getting a clear picture. Training Handbook by Jhaveri, N.J. Pdf

Author : van Koppen, Barbara
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290909446

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Living customary water tenure in rights-based water management in Sub-Saharan Africa by van Koppen, Barbara Pdf

Author : Detlef Briesen,Sarada Prasanna Das
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031312526

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Media, Politics and Environment by Detlef Briesen,Sarada Prasanna Das Pdf

Environmental protection has not equally established itself as a permanent fixture in the political systems of all countries: to date, governments and entire societies have responded to environmental challenges in a variety of ways, and concrete environmental policy is still a highly national matter. Moreover, the perception of environmental problems varies considerably on a global scale. The reasons normally cited for these differences largely stem from the environmental policy debates themselves, e.g. poverty, ignorance, capital interests, etc. In contrast, this book shows that concrete environmental policy emerges from a complex interplay of mass media and political conflicts: first, the mass media provide the framework for national environmental policy through agenda-setting, framing and scandalization; second, the mass media thereby change values in the political and social discourse, e.g. by altering the perception of global commons and expanding the possibilities of interest articulation; and third, this can lead to political decision-making processes in which legal and other measures for environmental protection are enforced. The book systematically compares industrialized countries such as Germany and Japan with several rapidly emerging countries in South and Southeast Asia.

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896294257

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2022 Global food policy report: Climate change and food systems by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pdf

Author : Ranjan Kumar Ghosh,Jens Rommel,Ilona M. Otto
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889749928

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Food Security, Agricultural Productivity, and the Environment: Economic, Sustainability, and Policy Perspectives by Ranjan Kumar Ghosh,Jens Rommel,Ilona M. Otto Pdf

Author : Andrew Jordan,Dave Huitema,Harro van Asselt,Johanna Forster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108418126

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Governing Climate Change by Andrew Jordan,Dave Huitema,Harro van Asselt,Johanna Forster Pdf

World's foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107569782

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Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Pdf

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Author : Per Pinstrup-Andersen,Derrill D. Watson II
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801463433

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Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen,Derrill D. Watson II Pdf

Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries (also from Cornell), the 2001 World Food Prize laureate Per Pinstrup-Andersen and his colleague Derrill D. Watson II analyze international food policies and discuss how such policies can and must address the many complex challenges that lie ahead in view of continued poverty, globalization, climate change, food price volatility, natural resource degradation, demographic and dietary transitions, and increasing interests in local and organic food production. Food Policy for Developing Countries offers a "social entrepreneurship" approach to food policy analysis. Calling on a wide variety of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography, the authors show how all elements in the food system function together.

Author : Manish Kumar,AL Ramanathan,Sangam Shrestha,Keisuke Kuroda,Santanu Mukherjee
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323915465

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River Basin Ecohydrology in the Indian Sub-Continent by Manish Kumar,AL Ramanathan,Sangam Shrestha,Keisuke Kuroda,Santanu Mukherjee Pdf

River Basin Ecohydrology in the Indian Sub-Continent: Sustainable Strategies and Sustenance provides a multidisciplinary approach that focuses on conservation strategies, water quality management in the eco-regions, catchment management practices, estuaries, preservation of in-stream habitat populations, and natural /bioengineering techniques for the sustainable management of ecological resources in the Indian sub-continent. The book provides a unique platform for readers from branches of science and technology, including engineering sciences, agricultural sciences, biogeochemical sciences, hydrogeochemistry, toxicological sciences, social sciences, environmental policy, and governance, etc. to exchange ideas and information at multiple levels on sustainable water management, degradation of marine quality and indicators of ecological degradation. The book's contributors provide impressive and comprehensive information on different management strategies for sustainable restoration of aquatic ecological systems covering vital aspects of hydrogeochemical and geoenvironmental parameters. This book aims to provide a "platform" for scientists and environmental researchers/planners to discuss the environmental degradation, spatial heterogeneity on water quality and aquatic species, methodological approaches on sustainable management of biodiversity, etc. Presents an extensive collection of eco-hydrological changes in the river basin driven by both nature and anthropological factors Provides state of the art modeling, data analysis methodologies for complex socio – ecological complexity applied in the Indian Sub-Continent Includes specific cases of ecohydrology in the river basin, especially from the Indian Sub-Continent

Author : Patrick Huntjens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030671303

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Towards a Natural Social Contract by Patrick Huntjens Pdf

This open access book is a 2022 Nautilus Gold Medal winner in the category "World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development". It states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huntjens, argues that overcoming these existential challenges will require a fundamental shift from our current anthropocentric and economic growth-oriented approach to a more ecocentric and regenerative approach. He advocates for a Natural Social Contract that emphasizes long-term sustainability and the general welfare of both humankind and planet Earth. Achieving this crucial balance calls for an end to unlimited economic growth, overconsumption and over-individualisation for the benefit of ourselves, our planet, and future generations. To this end, sustainability, health, and justice in all social-ecological systems will require systemic innovation and prioritizing a collective effort. The Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation (TSEI) framework presented in this book serves that cause. It helps to diagnose and advance innovation and spur change across sectors, disciplines, and at different levels of governance. Altogether, TSEI identifies intervention points and formulates jointly developed and shared solutions to inform policymakers, administrators, concerned citizens, and professionals dedicated towards a more sustainable, healthy and just society. A wide readership of students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in social innovation, transition studies, development studies, social policy, social justice, climate change, environmental studies, political science and economics will find this cutting-edge book particularly useful. “As a sustainability transition researcher, I am truly excited about this book. Two unique aspects of the book are that it considers bigger transformation issues (such as societies’ relationship with nature, purpose and justice) than those studied in transition studies and offers analytical frameworks and methods for taking up the challenge of achieving change on the ground.” - Prof. Dr. René Kemp, United Nations University and Maastricht Sustainability Institute

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Thomas de Groot,Sophie Bloemen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789492302359

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Our Commons by Thomas de Groot,Sophie Bloemen Pdf

Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable energy cooperatives and community foodwaste initiatives and urgent pleas to see the city as a commons and to treat health as a common good, this book is a political call to arms for all Europeans to embrace the commons and build a new Europe. Our Commons features contributions by David Bollier, Sheila R. Foster, Benjamin Coriat, Silke Helfrich, George Monbiot, Kate Raworth, Trebor Scholz and many others.