TY  - BOOK
ED  - Haller, Tobias
ED  - Liechti, Karina
ED  - Stuber, Martin
ED  - Viallon, François-Xavier
ED  - Wunderli, Rahel
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.4324/9781003043263
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210713_9781000367171_4
KW  - Nature and the natural world: general interest
KW  - Applied ecology
KW  - Conservation of the environment
KW  - The Earth: natural history: general interest
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Environmental policy and protocols
KW  - Environmental science, engineering and technology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/d39340fe-cec8-4d38-a301-73a600be67ec/9781000367171.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49992
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9781000367171
SN  - 9780367724085
SN  - 9781003043263
SN  - 9780367488734
TI  - Balancing the Commons in Switzerland : Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations
ER  - 
