Abstract
Murota, Takeshi and Ken Takeshita (eds.) (2013), Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance. New York: United Nations University press.
Highlights
This book provides a showcase of the breadth and sophistication of modern scholarship on the commons, and a mine of information and detailed analysis on commons dilemmas as they are being played out in developed and developing countries throughout the world
We perhaps need to remind ourselves that until relatively recently the commons would not have figured very prominently on such a research agenda. It provides a central theme of the project in general, and of this volume in particular. In this volume the editors have collected 19 research papers by Japanese scholars from a variety of disciplines, with the aim of demonstrating that “the sustenance and strengthening of local commons and democratic forms of environmental governance together hold the key to the achievement of equitable resource utilization in parallel with environmental conservation” (Muroto and Takeshita in the Foreword at pp. xxi–xxii)
In the context of environmental governance, the holy grail is a system that builds on local self-regulating institutions comprising local resource users, nesting them within an institutional framework that can take into account the causes and effects of local usages within the ecosystems of which they form a small part, giving voice to the many other interests at the local, national, transnational and global level, and yet still leaving intact the reality of local self-regulation
Summary
This book provides a showcase of the breadth and sophistication of modern scholarship on the commons, and a mine of information and detailed analysis on commons dilemmas as they are being played out in developed and developing countries throughout the world.
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