18 research outputs found
Supporting the Possibilities of Urban Commoning in Montréal’s Champ des Possibles: Progress Report
A former railyard, the Champ des Possibles has regenerated and is now a protected green space co-managed by the Plateau-Mont-Royal council and a community organization, Les Amis du Champ des Possibles. This documents provides an overview of findings from an online survey about the Champ des Possibles conducted during the summer of 2020 by researchers at Concordia and McGill Universities in partnership with Les Amis du Champ des Possibles as part of a SSHRC funded project , "Supporting the Possibilities of Urban Commoning in Montreal's Champ des Possibles." After introducing the project, the report highlights survey findings related to current and past use of the Champ, values associated with the Champ, and perceptions of and interest in participating it the site's management and governance
Does Size Matter? The Productivity of Government: Expenditures and the Size of States: Evidence from India
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of “multiples.” Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the “multiples” associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases the risk that critical issues will be overlooked. Framing analysis in terms of “multi-dimensional linkages” – including multiple scales, multi-level institutions, and other types of multiples – reduces that risk by directing attention to a broader range of factors, processes, and interactions
African Politics in Comparative Perspective, Goran Hyden, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 314.
Timber. By Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister. Malden, MA: Polity, 2011. 204p. $19.95 paper.
ØRNULF GULBRANDSEN, The State and the Social: state formation in Botswana and its precolonial and colonial genealogies. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn (pb $34.95/£22 – 978 1 78238 325 3). 2012, 343 pp.
Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research
Repertoires of Domination: Decentralization as Process in Botswana and Senegal
Summary Decentralization promises to empower local actors, but threatens others with a loss of power. We describe "repertoires of domination" as the set of acts actors perform to defend--or entrench and expand--their positions. We illustrate, through case studies of decentralization in natural resource sectors in Botswana and Senegal, how repertoires of domination prevent local-level democratization. The concept of repertoire brings attention to the availability of multiple, substitutable acts of domination that draw upon varied sources of power. Neither decentralization nor democratization can be achieved once and for all. These processes are both advanced and halted through acts of contestation.domination decentralization natural resource management democratization Africa Botswana Senegal