Balancing the Commons in Switzerland: Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations

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Tobias Haller (University of Bern, Switzerland) Karina Liechti

Balancing the Commons in Switzerland

Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations

Tobias Haller (University of Bern, Switzerland), Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber , François-Xavier Viallon

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Routledge
26 September 2022

Development studies; Anthropology; Human geography; Rural planning; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

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 centuries and have shaped the cultural landscapes of Switzerland. At the core of the book are five case studies from the German, French and Italian speaking regions of Switzerland. Beginning in the Late Middle Ages and focusing on the transformative periods in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it traces the internal and external political, economic and societal changes and examines what impact these changes had on commoners. It goes beyond the work of Robert Netting and Elinor Ostrom, who discussed Swiss commons as a unique case of robustness, by analysing how local commoners reacted to, but also shaped, changes by adapting and transforming common property institutions. Thus, the volume highlights how institutional changes in the management of the commons at the local level are embedded in the public policies of the respective cantons, and the state, which generates a high heterogeneity and an actual laboratory situation. It shows the power relations and very different routes that local collective organisations and their members have followed in order to cope with the loss of value of the commons and the increased workload for maintaining common property management. Providing insightful case studies of commons management, this volume delivers theoretical contributions and lessons to be learned for the commons worldwide.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, natural resource management and agricultural development.

Edited by: Tobias Haller (University of Bern Switzerland), Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon, Rahel Wunderli
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367724085
ISBN 10: 0367724081
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 26 September 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.