Governing Access to Essential Resources
Governing Access to Essential Resources
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Abstract
Essential resources do more than satisfy people’s needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution. This book argues that the division of essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity. Voice is the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed. Reflexivity is the opportunity to question one’s own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a collective learning process. Having investigated the allocation of essential resources in places as varied as Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, the arid American West, and peri-urban areas in West Africa, the contributors to this volume largely concur with the viability of this policy and normative framework. Drawing on their expertise in law, environmental studies, anthropology, history, political science, and economics, they weigh the potential of Voice and Reflexivity against such alternatives as pricing mechanisms, property rights, common resource management, political might, or brute force.
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Front Matter
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Part I Analytical Framework
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Part II Essential Resources: Challenges Ahead
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Land’s Essentiality and Land Governance
Derek Hall
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Governing Boundaries: Exclusion, Essential Resources, and Sustainability
Edella Schlager
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Property Theory, Essential Resources, and the Global Land Rush
Hanoch Dagan
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MultipliCity: Water, Rules, and the Making of Connections in Mumbai
Nikhil Anand
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Land’s Essentiality and Land Governance
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Part III Beyond Voice and Reflexivity
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Voice, Reflexivity, and Say: Governing Access to and Control of Land in China
Eva Pils
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Tenure Security and Exclusion Processes in Peri-urban Areas and Rural Hinterlands of West African Cities
Alain Durand-Lasserve
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Redirecting Regulation? Land Titling and Cambodia’s Post-Neoliberal Conjuncture
Michael B. Dwyer
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Erosion of Essential Resources in Neoliberal India: A Bottom-Up View
Vamsi Vakulabharanam
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Comparing Water Access Regimes Under Conditions of Scarcity: The Tale of Two Communities in the United States
Michael Cox
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Voice, Reflexivity, and Say: Governing Access to and Control of Land in China
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Part IV Governing Essential Resources in Action
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Go with the Flow: Lessons From Water Management and Water Markets for Essential Resources
Vanessa Casado-Pérez
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Ecology: Water Governance’s Missing Link
Scott McKenzie
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Water Scarcity in Morocco: Voice, Narrative, and Essential Resource Governance
John Hursh
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Solving Transborder Water Issues in Changing Climate Scenarios of South Asia: A Theoretical Illustration Using a Principal-Agent Bargaining Approach
Nilhari Neupane
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Voice and Reflexivity in Essential Resources: Reforming the Community Land Regime in Kenya
Laila Macharia
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Do Traditional Institutions Matter in Participatory Essential Resource Governance Systems in Zimbabwe?
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
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Local Corporations: A Corporate Form to Reduce Information Costs and Maintain Supportive Resources
James Krueger
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Go with the Flow: Lessons From Water Management and Water Markets for Essential Resources
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End Matter
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