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lothar farmer-managed irrigation system, chitwan district, nepal | Case |
lothar is a farmer-managed irrigation system in the chitwan district, about 30 kilometres east of the city of bharatpur in nepal. the resource unit is water for irrigation. the system comprises of a main canal, an approach canal, six branch canals, and field channels. individual farmers are responsible for maintaining field channels and tertiary canals. during the time of the original case, which spans from 1985 to 1986, there was no history of conflicts in the irrigation system. this case... | 09 Aug 2016 |
gwembe tonga land tenure, zambezi valley, zambia | Case |
arable land in this case, following ostrom (2005: 24), is both a common pool resource and a public good. bush land used for shifting cultivation is a common pool resource. rights to this land belong to whoever clears it. there are virtually no rules governing access, except acceptance into a community that claims the bush land as part of its territory. gaining acceptance is a simple matter of asking permission or just establishing residence in a place. river land is a common pool resource.... | 09 Aug 2016 |
matsigenka agriculture, manu biosphere reserve, peru | Case |
arable land among the matsigenka is a public good (ostrom 2005: 24). at base the matsigenka do not have institutions that regulate who can access arable land. anyone who has been incorporated into a community has the right to access arable land. the only requirement before opening up a new field is that people must state their intent. this practice decreases the probability of clearing a plot of land that someone else was planning to clear. in short, use of arable land does not affect the... | 09 Aug 2016 |
tarahumara gentiles agriculture, sierra madres, northwest mexico | Case |
the resource under consideration here is arable land. arable land is a common pool resource in this case. on the dimensions of subtractability and excludability defined by ostrom (2005), land is highly subtractble, but it is difficult to exclude resource users from land that is not continuously cultivated. in essence, cultivating a parcel of land means that there is less available land in the system; however, it is very difficult to exclude people from obtaining sufficient land for their... | 09 Aug 2016 |
parwara village van panchayat: institutional change | Case |
the main appropriated resources are grass, used mainly for cattle grazing and compost, and forest tress, used mostly for fuel wood and construction timber. almost all of the total resource units appropriated in the parwara van panchayat (vp) forest are officially regulated by the parwara van panchayat committee (vpc), timber and resin are regulated by the state forest department. the nainital district magistrate, and the van panchayat inspector, who is employed by the state revenue department,... | 09 Aug 2016 |
brander-taylor model and variations | Case |
brander-taylor easter island model and its variations. brander and taylor (1998) summarizes the background of the model as the following., easter island (also called rapa nui) is a small pacific island over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the coast of chile, with a population (as of the early 1990's) of about 2,100. for the past two centuries, easter island has been regarded as a major archaeological and anthropological mystery. in particular, the polynesian civilization in place at the time... | 09 Aug 2016 |
the irrigation system of the northwest murcia region (spain): robustness of ses to the intrusion of new resource users | Case |
farmers in the northwest murcia region (spain) have used for centuries the water from springs to irrigate their lands. they are organized in irrigation communities adapted to cope with rainfall variability. this system was robust in terms of its use of the water emerging from the springs to irrigate small patches of land. in recent decades, large agrarian companies have settled in this region and use groundwater to irrigate new lands. this intrusion had led the levels of this resource to drop... | 09 Aug 2016 |
agricultural water use and the 1980 groundwater management act: institutional change and water conservation in south-central az | Case |
the seminal 1980 groundwater management act (gma) in arizona, usa is an institution designed to curb groundwater overdraft through a combination of conservation strategies, augmentation and supply development, and reduction in agricultural water use through strict prohibition of its expansion in designated areas called active management areas (amas). with urbanization pressures and the halting of agricultural expansion, agriculture in the phoenix and pinal amas uses less water on the whole than... | 09 Aug 2016 |
fishery robustness diagram | Case |
this case is to illustrate the functionality of the dynamic robustness diagram. right now, the descriptions are very limited. they will become much more detailed as the research continues. | 09 Aug 2016 |
taos valley acequias community-based irrigation system, taos, new mexico, usa | Case |
key findings: the taos valley acequias have survived for several hundred years as a community-based irrigation system due to a mix of social and biophysical features. these include: a low-cost decentralized monitoring system that is enabled by both water distribution institutions and the geographic location of users multiple levels of governance built up by key actors within each acequia a system of shallow groundwater aquifers which are particularly important during droughts, and which are... | 09 Aug 2016 |
does the u.s. farm bill help farmers' markets feed the poor? | Case |
food justice advocates increasingly turn to farmers' markets to alleviate poor nutrition among underserved communities in the united states. in addition, farmers markets serve to create new farms and food businesses, create activity in downtowns and neighborhoods, and offer a local and distributed alternative to an increasingly concentrated and vulnerable food and grocery distribution system. the u.s. department of agriculture 2008 farm bill recognizes the importance of farmers'... | 09 Aug 2016 |
whaling practices among the makah indians, neah bay, washington state, usa | Case |
the case examines the whaling practices of the makah indians of washington state. after practicing whaling for thousands of years, the makah were forced to stop due to commercial whaling during the late 1800s and early 1900s. in the 1990s, the makah began efforts to begin whaling again due to increased whale populations. since their only successful whale hunt in 1999, the makah have faced continual litigation from animal rights activists. | 09 Aug 2016 |
parwara van panchayat forest: social structure and exogenous drivers | Case |
this paper is an extension of two prior case studies about the parwara van panchayat (forest council):, the 1988 parwara van panchayat forest which covered the status of this social-ecological system (ses) from approx. 1931 to 1985 (case no. 34); and, the 2008 parwara van panchayat forest ii which provided a ses update up to 2007 (case no. 159)., for purposes of this report, the ses study boundaries were extended beyond the parwara village van panchayat to include an institutional analysis of... | 09 Aug 2016 |
the hohokam cultural sequence (irrigation and foraging), sonoran desert, greater phoenix basin, arizona, usa | Case |
the hohokam is a native american cilivilization that emerged and occupied the present day phoenix basin area and its outer bounds for a thousand years. the archeological records indicate that the hohokam society evolved into a complex irrigation society and reached its peak in levels of population, social institutions, and irrigation infrastructure by the 11th century. perplexingly though, the hohokam society subsequently declined and collapsed by the mid 14th century. as they declined, the... | 09 Aug 2016 |
agave cultivation in the arid pre-hispanic, villanueva municipality, state of zacatecas, northern mexico | Case |
agave is a perennial plant that can be used for multiple purposes: as edible materials for yielding caloric values and as fiber materials for producing items like clothing, ropes, and baskets. historical records indicate that the cultivation of agave was a common practice in pre-hispanic northern mexico and the american southwest. it is generally accepted among archeologists that the agave cultivation was linked to the strategy of ensuring food supply when maize cropping failed from droughts.... | 09 Aug 2016 |