2. Lessons from Community-Based Resource Management 3. Migratory Marine Resources as a Special Challenge to Commons Theory

• Main Authors: Edited Nobuhiro Kishigami, James M. Savelle, Fikret Berkes
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; Chisasibi; Indian; Subarctic; James Bay
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.470.9347; http://www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/natural_resources/canadaresearchchair/Berkes 2005 commons.05.pdf

I carried out my first study of community-based resource management in the mid-1970s in the Cree Indian village of Chisasibi, James Bay, in eastern subarctic Canada. As a recent science PhD, I had no training to appreciate local resource management institutions and traditional knowledge. Worse, as a...