3. Migratory Marine Resources as a Special Challenge to Commons Theory

• Main Authors: Nobuhiro Kishigami, James M. Savelle, Fikret Berkes, I Commonsconceptandtheory
• 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=10.1.1.627.5958; http://ir.minpaku.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10502/1077/1/SES67_002.pdf

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