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Common property, forest management and the Indian Himalaya

Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

This article examines contributions to the literature on common property regimes that govern natural resources. The article also seeks to analyse the relevance of this literature for resource management in the Indian Himalaya. Writings on common property have been instrumental in developing a theoretical justification for decentralisation of envir onmental policies around the world. Nonetheless, they have been relatively inattentive to issues of power and the larger socio-political context within which most common prop erty regimes are embedded. Research in the Himalayan mountains not only stands to benefit from using theoretical approaches based on studies of common property, but can also enrich the study of common property because of the long history of commons management in the region.

Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 2, 181-212 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/006996670103500202


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