Inter-Community Institutions and Commons Governance
Author | : Godfreyb Ssekajja |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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Studies of community-based natural resource management often focus on institutions that develop inside a community while paying little or no attention to the institutions that develop between communities, even when more than one community appropriates the natural resource under consideration. In this paper, I examine forestry and fisheries management among communities on Buvuma island, located in the Ugandan portion of Lake Victoria. Several communities appropriate the forests on the island and the fish in the waters around the island. And because it is difficult for one community to stop others from accessing a forest or fishing ground, effective community-based resource management is more feasible when all resource-appropriating communities collaborate than when they act independently. In such contexts, inter-community institutions are so crucial that ignoring or underexamining them presents an incomplete and misleading understanding of community-based management. I conclude by calling for a more systematic analysis of inter-community processes, and I suggest how a research project around the determinants of inter-community institutions might proceed.