Property rights and collective action in watersheds
According to the authors, watersheds define a terrain united by the flow of water, nutrients, pollutants, and sediment. Watersheds also link foresters, farmers, fishers, and urban dwellers in intricate social relationships. Both factors?the biophysical attributes and the policy and institutional env...
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2004
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| author | Swallow, Brent M. Johnson, Nancy L. Knox, Anna Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. |
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| description | According to the authors, watersheds define a terrain united by the flow of water, nutrients, pollutants, and sediment. Watersheds also link foresters, farmers, fishers, and urban dwellers in intricate social relationships. Both factors?the biophysical attributes and the policy and institutional environments?shape peoples? livelihoods and interactions within the watershed. In this brief the authors show that watersheds have such broad impacts at so many levels, they raise special issues for the management of resources through collective action. They explore the relationships between property rights, collective action, watershed management, and stakehold participation and conclude that empowering local communities to take a leading role in watershed management is essential. -- from Text. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1574672025-02-24T06:47:37Z Property rights and collective action in watersheds Swallow, Brent M. Johnson, Nancy L. Knox, Anna Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. collective behavior poverty alleviation property rights collective action empowerment stakeholders watershed management water management farmers urban population resource management gender women According to the authors, watersheds define a terrain united by the flow of water, nutrients, pollutants, and sediment. Watersheds also link foresters, farmers, fishers, and urban dwellers in intricate social relationships. Both factors?the biophysical attributes and the policy and institutional environments?shape peoples? livelihoods and interactions within the watershed. In this brief the authors show that watersheds have such broad impacts at so many levels, they raise special issues for the management of resources through collective action. They explore the relationships between property rights, collective action, watershed management, and stakehold participation and conclude that empowering local communities to take a leading role in watershed management is essential. -- from Text. 2004 2024-10-24T12:50:01Z 2024-10-24T12:50:01Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157467 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157468 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Swallow, Brent M.; Johnson, Nancy; Knox, Anna; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2004. Property rights and collective action in watersheds. 2020 Vision Focus Brief. 11(12). In Collective action and property rights for sustainable development. 2020 Vision Focus 11. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157467 |
| spellingShingle | collective behavior poverty alleviation property rights collective action empowerment stakeholders watershed management water management farmers urban population resource management gender women Swallow, Brent M. Johnson, Nancy L. Knox, Anna Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| title | Property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| title_full | Property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| title_fullStr | Property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| title_full_unstemmed | Property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| title_short | Property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| title_sort | property rights and collective action in watersheds |
| topic | collective behavior poverty alleviation property rights collective action empowerment stakeholders watershed management water management farmers urban population resource management gender women |
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