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Session C1
Tenure, livelihoods and sustainable development — Common property issues
Abstract
The users of communal ecosystems aim to maintain and enhance a complex suite
of livelihood strategies and assets, and have evolved adaptive and flexible
management systems and institutions. Project managers and policy makers are
seldom aware of this, and often transplant inflexible economic and institutional
models to communal areas. In this session, we ask the questions:
• How do the adaptive management systems in communal ecosystems differ
from conventional management systems characterising freehold land?
• Are conventional economic models, organisations and institutions appropriate
to manage communal ecosystems?
• What are the implications for government and donor policy?
African Journal of Range & Forage Science 2003, 20(2): 197–201
of livelihood strategies and assets, and have evolved adaptive and flexible
management systems and institutions. Project managers and policy makers are
seldom aware of this, and often transplant inflexible economic and institutional
models to communal areas. In this session, we ask the questions:
• How do the adaptive management systems in communal ecosystems differ
from conventional management systems characterising freehold land?
• Are conventional economic models, organisations and institutions appropriate
to manage communal ecosystems?
• What are the implications for government and donor policy?
African Journal of Range & Forage Science 2003, 20(2): 197–201
