CAPRi Seminar at the International Association for the Study of Common Property Meeting

The CAPRi seminar at the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) brought together researchers and practitioners who presented their findings from recent work around the topics "Defending the Commons & Decentralization and the Commons". The presentations and discussions explored the different pathways used by  various  actors to  secure rights to natural resources in the commons.  There was also a presentation on the Digital
Library of the Commons (DLC) http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu that provided the presenters and audience members with information about copyright issues and self-publication through the DLC.

The following presentations were given:

• Owen Lynch (Center for International Environmental Law): Promoting the Legal Recognition of Community Based Property Rights (CBPRs), Including the Commons
• Dianne E. Rocheleau (Clark University): Mapping the commons: using maps to negotiate multiple rights of use and access to complex commons
• David M. Hughes (Rutgers University): The commons as containment: Zimbabwe's village republics of the 1990s
• Jon Anderson (USAID): Community based natural resource management: responding to emerging strains and challenges?
• Dawn Montanye (World Wildlife Fund): Community Co-Management Experience of WWF
• Carl Bauer (Resources for the Future): Hydropower, River Protection, and Negotiating Water Rights in Chilean Patagonia
• Jorge Uquillas (The World Bank): A Comprehensive Policy for the Protection of Indigenous People's Property Rights?
• Esther Mwangi and Stephan Dohrn (IFPRI, CAPRi): Securing Access to Drylands Resources for Multiple Users
• Augusta Molnar (Forest Trends): Who conserves the world's forests? The role of communities and commonly-held lands in conservation.
• Jesse Ribot (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars): Institutional Choice and Recognition in Natural Resource Decentralization

The presentations and background papers will be available through the Digital Library of the Commons:
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu.