People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape

• Main Authors: Johnson, Leslie Main, Andre, Daniel
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: IASC; common pool resources; institutional analysis; indigenous institutions; arctic regions; resource management; General & Multiple Resources; Social Organization; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Inuvik; Fort McPherson; Aklavik; Tsiigehtchic; Inuvialuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10535/1065

"It is a tenet of common property theory that local groups of people tend to evolve institutions to allocate common pool resources among community members in ways which are economically and ecologically sustainable. We are interested in the applicability of this type of analysis to subsistence...