scholarly journals CORRUPTION IN ACESSING AND UTILIZING THE COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES IN INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Lengga Pradipta
Keyword(s):  
Common Property ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Common Property Resources ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Common ◽  
Scarcity Of Resources ◽  
Natural Characteristics

This article reviews some corruption cases that are associated with natural resources management, especially in accessing and utilizing common property resources in Indonesia. It attempts to extract lessons from regulations and actions that have emerged in all levels and across many sectors. This article develops social-ecological systems (SES) framework to deliver a clear roadmap for incorporating more ecological or natural characteristics into studies that explores linkage social and legal systems. The framework therefore considers how problems are defined and how action and policy are formulated to deal with these problems. This article provides an in-depth investigation in Pasaman district. The data is gathered by interviewing local people who live around palm plantations in West Pasaman. Corruption in the context of managing common property resources brings many disadvantages to community and State because it will lead to the scarcity of resources. Overall, eradicating corruption is not only on the hands of community or private sectors, but also needs active involvement from government and policy-makers as the main stakeholders.

Vickers Hot Springs

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Common Property Resource ◽  
Resource Conflict ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Common

Vickers Hot Springs is located near the rural Southern California town of Ojai, and local residents have long enjoyed soaking in the sulfuric pools. But as knowledge of the springs spread, the area saw increases in fights, traffic, burglaries, and drug use. In response, two residents purchased the land and committed to restore the property while allowing limited public access, subsequently generating a great deal of controversy within the community. Privatizing Vickers Hot Springs follows the archetypical lesson of Garrett Hardin's 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Hardin stated that the problem for common-pool resources was that a finite amount of services are demanded by a potentially infinite number of users, who have little to gain by sacrificing for the common good. But Hardin's theory does not always apply. Many communities have come together to manage resources, often without government oversight. Thus, the question is not whether or not Hardin's theory is accurate, but rather “under what conditions it is correct and when it makes the wrong predictions.” Case studies provide nuance to the broad brushstrokes of a theory, and whether Hardin's parable is applicable depends on the particularities of the common property resource conflict. Employing the frameworks established by Hardin, Dietz et al., and Ostrom, this paper examines the management of Vickers Hot Springs within its broader social, ecological, and political context, asking whether the particular circumstances of this resource use conflict made privatization the most predictable outcome.

Development-Induced Dispossession, Displacement, and Embedded Power Relations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Common Property ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Common Property Resources ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Common ◽  
Embedded Power ◽  
Land Control

This chapter critically examines the class dynamics of land control and the influence of the elites and absentee landlords who take decisions on behalf of the subsistent peasantry. Yet another layer of control over land, the inter-dependence of the poor on the elites and vice-versa, has been analysed in detail. Simultaneously, the chapter also illustrates the peasant narrative about subordination, subalternity, and powerlessness. It mainly elucidates the peasant’s interpretations of loss caused by dispossession and displacement. It also discusses the viewpoints of the state, the corporate, and the political parties on the concept of the micro picture of who gets what and how. The chapter argues that HEP construction in Gurez has caused destruction of ecology and has adversely impacted the common property resources. Therefore, land-grabbing leads to a phenomenon where land is needed while labour is not.

scholarly journals Knowledge Structures and Components of Rural Resilience in the 2010s: Conceptual Development and Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9769
Author(s):  
GoWoon Kim ◽  
Wanmo Kang ◽  
Junga Lee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

Resilience is being widely adopted as a comprehensive analytical framework for understanding sustainability dynamics, despite the conceptual challenges in developing proxies and indicators for researchers and policy makers. In our study, we observed how the concept of resilience undergoes continued extension within the rural resilience literature. We comprehensively reviewed rural resilience literature using keyword co-occurrence network (KCN) analysis and a systematic review of shortlisted papers. We conducted the KCN analysis for 1186 papers to characterize the state of the rural resilience literature, and systematically reviewed 36 shortlisted papers to further examine how rural resilience analysis and its assessment tools are helping understand the complexity and interdependence of rural social-ecological systems, over three three-year periods from 2010 to 2018. The results show that the knowledge structure built by the high frequency of co-occurrence keywords remains similar over the three-year periods, including climate change, resilience, vulnerability, adaptation, and management, whereas the components of knowledge have greatly expanded, indicating an increased understanding of rural system dynamics. Through the systematic review, we found that developing resilience assessment tools is often designed as a process to strengthen adaptive capacity at the household or community level in response to global processes of climate change and economic globalization. Furthermore, community resilience is found to be an interesting knowledge component that has characterized rural resilience literature in the 2010s. Based on our study, we summarized conceptual characteristics of rural resilience and discussed the challenges and implications for researchers and policy makers.

scholarly journals Group size in social-ecological systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (11) ◽  
pp. 2728-2733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Casari ◽  
Claudio Tagliapietra
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Average Group ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Average Group Size

Cooperation becomes more difficult as a group becomes larger, but it is unclear where it will break down. Here, we study group size within well-functioning social-ecological systems. We consider centuries-old evidence from hundreds of communities in the Alps that harvested common property resources. Results show that the average group size remained remarkably stable over about six centuries, in contrast to a general increase in the regional population. The population more than doubled, but although single groups experienced fluctuations over time, the average group size remained stable. Ecological factors, such as managing forest instead of pasture land, played a minor role in determining group size. The evidence instead indicates that factors related to social interactions had a significant role in determining group size. We discuss possible interpretations of the findings based on constraints in individual cognition and obstacles in collective decision making.

scholarly journals The Common Access as Pro People Management of Natural Resources (An Analysis of Decision Number 3/PUU-VIII/2010 about Judicial Review of Law 27/2007)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Faiq Tobroni ◽  
Izzatin Kamala
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Court Decision ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Common

This paper aims to explore the new concept as an alternative management of natural resources (specifically Coastal Areas and Small Islands/CA-SI). In Decision Number 3/PUU-VIII/2010 (the Court Decision), the Constitutional Court uses the new concept as considerations to cancel the Concession Rights on Coastal Waters (CR-CW) as the mechanism of management of CA-SI in Law Number 27 Year 2007 about Management of Coastal Area and Small Islands (Law 27/2007). Some important questions in this paper are why did the Constitutional Court annul CR-CW in Law 27/2007? Whether the new concept offered in the Court Decision and consistent with 1945 Constitution? And how is the new concept offered consistent with people empowerment?The revoke of CR-CW in Law 27/2007 is caused that the concept of concession is contrary to the norms of natural resources management in the 1945 Constitution and the spirit of people empowerment. The new concept offered in the Decision is the common access. In this concept of access, CA-SI is   regarded as the common property with the rules from members of the community itself. The provisions to access CA-SI  as  the common  property are also determined by agreements of the community itself. Management of CA-SI on the common access is in accordance with people empowerment. The consistency is shown by the relevancy of concept of common access to include three key issues of people empowerment (access, assets and collective  capabilities).

scholarly journals Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Tam ◽  
Kai M. A. Chan ◽  
Terre Satterfield ◽  
G.G. Singh ◽  
Stefan Gelcich
Keyword(s):  
Common Property ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Cultural Shifts

Conventional common property thinking assumes that a central goal of management is to maintain social-ecological systems in a healthy and resilient state, including maintaining the ability of communities to harvest across time and generations. Little research has been done, however, on how common property systems are affected by demographic shifts, the social status of emerging livelihoods, and the employment aspirations of users for their offspring. An empirical case study from Chile (well known for its common property fisheries) suggests that major socio-cultural shifts are now occurring, with a lack of entry by new fishers and an aging population of existing ones. These types of social and cultural changes are increasingly common through globalization and worldwide economic development, and pose significant policy challenges across broad classes of common property systems. The Chilean case reveals that community adaptive capacity can come at the expense of social-ecological common property systems, and highlights the need to consider the broader context of ‘slow’ social variables.

State of Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-85
Author(s):  
Ulrich Frey
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Public Goods Games ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Resource Dilemma ◽  
Potential Success ◽  
The Common ◽  
State Of Research

This chapter outlines the state of research. First, basic biological cooperation mechanisms are examined for their relevance for success in the management of natural resources. In a second step, findings from economic behavioral experiments (public goods games) are summarized in order to identify cooperation-enhancing factors in social dilemmas. Finally, the common-pool resource dilemma will be characterized more precisely. After these broader discussions, social-ecological systems and potential success factors for sustainable management are characterized more precisely by a literature review.

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