Abstract
Yu, D., J. M. Anderies, D. Lee, and I. Perez. 2014. Transformation of resource management institutions under globalization: the case of songgye community forests in South Korea. Ecology and Society 19(2): 2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06135-190202
Highlights
Studies of commons dilemmas have often focused on investigating factors that affect whether and how institutions succeed or fail in enabling collective action in social-ecological systems (SESs; Ostrom 1990, 2005, Ostrom et al 2002)
We focus on the question of what factors help explain the persistence of effective collective action in the management of common-pool resources in SESs under conditions that will likely be realized in the few decades as a result of globalization
Many songgye operated in the Geumsan region for hundreds of years and played key roles for the sustainable management of forest commons, until they became functionally obsolete in the mid-20th century (Kang 2001)
Summary
Studies of commons dilemmas have often focused on investigating factors that affect whether and how institutions succeed or fail in enabling collective action in social-ecological systems (SESs; Ostrom 1990, 2005, Ostrom et al 2002). One of the ways that such global interconnectedness can impact local selfgoverned CPR systems is by increasing the inflow of substitute goods for CPRs or increasing the opportunity cost of labor, which will reduce the salience of CPRs for local livelihoods (Poteete and Ostrom 2004, Araral 2009). Such changes in context will likely induce some self-governed systems to fail and subsequently transform themselves, rather than merely adapt. Systematic research on the postfailure transformation process is rare in the commons literature ( see Abel et al 2006), and the connection between different transformation paths and their determinants remains poorly understood (Rudel 2011)
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