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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland: Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations book cover

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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations

Edited By Tobias Haller, Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon, Rahel Wunderli Copyright 2021
322 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland. The book focuses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners’ organisations (corporations of citizens and corporations) which have managed common property for several... Read more

Prologue: Why Switzerland

Jon Mathieu

1 Ostrom’s legacy of robustness and the ‘Swiss commons lab’: Introductory reflections on change and power in commons studies

Tobias Haller, Jean-David Gerber, Karina Liechti, Stéphane Nahrath, Christian Rohr, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon and Rahel Wunderli

PART I Disciplinary approaches and theoretical reflections

2 Transformations of common pastures and woodlands in Switzerland: A historical perspective

Martin Stuber and Rahel Wunderli

3 How do the commons meet the state? A political science perspective

François-Xavier Viallon and Stéphane Nahrath

4 Commons and peasant studies: Insights from social anthropology, human geography and agrarian economics

Tobias Haller, Karina Liechti And Stefan Mann

PART II Case studies

5 Scopes and challenges of a huge corporation over time: The case of the Korporation Uri (Canton Uri)

Rahel Wunderli

6 Urban commons in Alpine areas: The case of the Bürgergemeinde Chur (Canton Grisons)

Martin Stuber

7 Transformation, diversification, partnerships: The case of the Sarnen commoners’ organisations (Canton Obwalden)

Karina Liechti

8 Weak commons management, strong identity: The case of Val d’Anniviers (Canton Valais)

François-Xavier Viallon

9 A fragile balance?: The case of pasture and forest management in Olivone (Canton Ticino)

Mark Bertogliati

PART III Synthesis

10 Transformation and diversity: Synthesis of the case studies

Tobias Haller, Mark Bertogliati, Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon and Rahel Wunderli

Biography

Tobias Haller is Professor in Social Anthropology and Managing Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland. He is the leading author of The Commons in a Glocal World (Routledge, 2019).

Karina Liechti is a Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment CDE and at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Martin Stuber is Senior Scientist at the Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland.

François-Xavier Viallon is a Political Scientist at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rahel Wunderli is a Postdoctoral Assistant at the Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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