Common Property Resource Management Reflections on Theory and the Indian Experience

by Kadekodi, Gopal K.

• ISBN13: 9780195666168
• ISBN10: 019566616X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume provides a description of the theory of common property resources and constitutes a statistical overview with cases studies of the issue in India.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Abbreviations	xii
Boxes	xvi
Figures	xvii
Tables	xviii
Appendices	xxi
Common Property Regime: An Introduction	1	(27)
What is `Commons'?	1	(2)
A Brief Tour of Commons: Historical and Contemporary	3	(8)
The Problems of Commons	11	(2)
The Context of Property Rights	13	(6)
Definition of Common Property Resources	19	(4)
Definition of Open Access Resource	23	(1)
Other Types of Commonly Pooled Resources	24	(1)
Why a `Common Property Regime' is Relevant	24	(2)
About the Book	26	(2)
Dimensions of Common Property Land Resources in India	28	(25)
Introduction	28	(2)
Land Resources	30	(5)
Forest Resources	35	(4)
Wasteland Resources	39	(14)
Dimensions of Access to Common Property Resources	53	(36)
Introduction	53	(1)
Water Resources	54	(3)
Fishery Resources	57	(2)
Biomes and Biodiversity Resources	59	(2)
Access, Dependency, and Resource Flows from CPRs	61	(18)
Some Lessons from the Dimensionality of CPRs	79	(10)
Common Property Resources, Private Property Resources, and Livelihood	89	(41)
Introduction: The Setting	89	(2)
A Simple Theory of Property Rights Regimes	91	(3)
CPR-PPR Linkage	94	(5)
A Model of CPR-PPR Linkage and Recognition of Community Labour	99	(3)
Case Studies of CPR-PPR Linkages	102	(3)
CPR-Livelihood Linkages	105	(9)
A Case Study on CPR-Livelihood Linkage and Intergenerational Equity	114	(5)
On Sustainable Harvesting and Carrying Capacity of CPRs	119	(5)
A Case Study of Estimating Sustainable Rates of Fishing from Karnataka	124	(6)
Theories of CPR Management: Collective Action, Participation, and Evolution	130	(35)
Collective Action: A Concept	130	(7)
Collective Action: Some Theories	137	(13)
The Evolutionary Model	150	(5)
Creating Institutions for Pooling Private Resources	155	(10)
Existing Institutions to Manage CPRs in India	165	(29)
How are CPR Resources Managed in India?	165	(5)
Types of CPR Institutions in India	170	(24)
Political Economy of CPRs: Investment and Design of Management and Legal Strategies	194	(23)
The Efforts so Far	194	(4)
Investment Patterns of CPR and Wastelands Programmes	198	(6)
Design of CPR Revival Programmes	204	(3)
Legal Status of Common Property Management in India	207	(7)
Political Economy to Manage CPRs	214	(3)
Revenue Land as Commons: the Case of National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation	217	(12)
Introduction	217	(1)
Genesis and Growth of Tree Growers Cooperative Societies in India	218	(1)
How Does Institution Building Take Place at the Village Level?	219	(2)
Brief History of NTGCF Growth	221	(2)
Case Study of Mallenahally Village TGCS in Karnataka	223	(3)
Case Study of Sarnal Tree Growers Cooperative Society in Gujarat	226	(3)
Watershed Development on Forest Lands: the Case of Sukhomajrians	229	(14)
Participatory Watershed Development	229	(1)
About Sukhomajrians	230	(4)
A Cost-Benefit Model of Participatory Development	234	(9)
An Institution of Creating CPRs Out of PPRs: the Case of Chakriya Vikas Pranali	243	(11)
What is Chakriya Vikas Pranali?	243	(4)
Micro-level Analysis of CVP	247	(6)
Conceptualizing CVP as a Replicable Model	253	(1)
Water as CPR: Cases of Traditional Systems, Community Management, and Sharing Principles	254	(13)
Introduction	254	(1)
On Irrigation Systems	255	(7)
Institutions Specifically Addressed at Sharing of Water	262	(5)
References	267	(12)
Index	279