Sierra Madres, northwest Mexico

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Tarahumara Gentiles agriculture, Sierra Madres, northwest Mexico

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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...
Freeman J, Brady U
09 Aug 2016