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- Title
Dossier « Le champ des commons en question : perspectives croisées « - Gestion des ressources communes en Suisse : le rôle des institutions de gestion communautaire dans les politiques environnementales et d'aménagement du territoire
- Authors
Nahrath, Stéphane; Gerber, Jean-David; Knoepfel, Peter; Bréthaut, Christian
- Abstract
This contribution deals with the question of the conditions of perpetuation of common pool resource institutions (CPRI) in the context of the contemporary States, as from the Swiss case. It particularly handles three assumptions - mediation, multipositionnality and complementarity - dealing with the involvement of CPRI within the main public policies (environment and land-use planning) involved in the regulation of common pool resources. This discussion enables to empirically show, with three examples, hunting leases, irrigation corporations and urban civic corporations, that the CPRI are indeed, in some cases, far from being relics of the past and that they are likely, under certain conditions, to play an important role in a number of institutional resource regimes. It also shows that, as holders of clearly defined and recognized property rights, CPRI tend to be integrated in the local arrangements for the implementation of environmental public policy and land use planning. In doing so, this contribution also suggests that the recognition and "empowerment" of CPRI, sometimes yearned for by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues, are not free of the exclusion risks of CPRI non-members to the access resources or of concentration of control power of the latter by "local barons".
- Subjects
OSTROM, Elinor, 1933-2012; LAND use; RESOURCE management; SELF-efficacy; ENVIRONMENTAL policy
- Publication
Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1240-1307
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/nss/2011134