Hunting for common ground between wildlife governance and commons scholarship.
Abstract
Wildlife hunting is essential to livelihoods and food security in many parts of the
world, yet present rates of extraction may threaten ecosystems and human communities.
Thus, governing sustainable wildlife use is a major social dilemma and conservation
challenge. Commons scholarship is well positioned to contribute theoretical insights
and analytic tools to better understand the interface of social and ecological dimensions
of wildlife governance, yet the intersection of wildlife studies and commons scholarship
is not well studied. We reviewed existing wildlife-hunting scholarship, drawing on
a database of 1,410 references, to examine the current overlap with commons scholarship
through multiple methods, including social network analysis and deductive coding.
We found that a very small proportion of wildlife scholarship incorporated commons
theories and frameworks. The social network of wildlife scholarship was densely interconnected
with several major publication clusters, whereas the wildlife commons scholarship
was sparse and isolated. Despite the overarching gap between wildlife and commons
scholarship, a few scholars are studying wildlife commons. The small body of scholarship
that bridges these disconnected literatures provides valuable insights into the understudied
relational dimensions of wildlife and other overlapping common-pool resources. We
suggest increased engagement among wildlife and commons scholars and practitioners
to improve the state of knowledge and practice of wildlife governance across regions,
particularly for bushmeat hunting in the tropics, which is presently understudied
through a common-pool resource lens. Our case study of the Republic of Congo showed
how the historical context and interrelationships between hunting and forest rights
are essential to understanding the current state of wildlife governance and potential
for future interventions. A better understanding of the interconnections between wildlife
and overlapping common-pool resource systems may be key to understanding present wildlife
governance challenges and advancing the common-pool resource research agenda.
Type
Journal articleSubject
análisis de redes socialesbienes
bushmeat
carne de caza
caza
common pool resource
commons
hunting
instituciones
institutions
recursos comunes
social network analysis
tenencia
tenure
丛林肉
公共资源
公地资源
机构任职
狩猎
社会网络分析
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18602Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1111/cobi.13200Publication Info
Smith, Hillary; Marrocoli, Sergio; Garcia Lozano, Alejandro; & Basurto, Xavier (2019). Hunting for common ground between wildlife governance and commons scholarship. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 33(1). pp. 9-21. 10.1111/cobi.13200. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18602.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Xavier Basurto
Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Associate Professor
I am interested in the fundamental question of how groups (human and non-human) can
find ways to self-organize, cooperate, and engage in successful collective action
for the benefit of the common good. To do this I strive to understand how the institutions
(formal and informal rules and norms) that govern social behavior, interplay with
biophysical variables to shape social-ecological systems. What kind of institutions
are better able to govern complex-adaptive systems? and how can societies (la
Hillary Smith
Research Assistant, Ph D Student
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