Historical archive sources as knowledge for the current management of common pastures

Far from representing an anachronism, common pastures are a valuable resource for many European village communities. Generally, these pastures are located in natural areas of high environmental value, and therefore many stakeholders are involved in their management: e.g. user communities, government...

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Main Author: Vázquez, Iago
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Language:Spanish
Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2019
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https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2019.174005
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topic Common-pool resources
historical archive sources
institutional memory
participatory planning
Bienes comunales
archivo histórico
memoria institucional
gestión participativa
spellingShingle Common-pool resources
historical archive sources
institutional memory
participatory planning
Bienes comunales
archivo histórico
memoria institucional
gestión participativa
Vázquez, Iago
Historical archive sources as knowledge for the current management of common pastures
topic_facet Common-pool resources
historical archive sources
institutional memory
participatory planning
Bienes comunales
archivo histórico
memoria institucional
gestión participativa
description Far from representing an anachronism, common pastures are a valuable resource for many European village communities. Generally, these pastures are located in natural areas of high environmental value, and therefore many stakeholders are involved in their management: e.g. user communities, government agencies, NGOs. Experience has shown that collaboration among these stakeholders can be very useful, as this enables synthesis of different ways of analyzing the resource. Specifically, a valuable type of knowledge that user communities can supply is their governance history, which includes a set of management strategies designed by different generations. However, compiling this knowledge can be problematic, because, over time, user communities have usually lost a part of it. In this paper we show the benefits of using historical archive sources to compile the governance history of village communities that have used common pastures for long time periods. In addition, we provide a novel methodology that facilitates the analysis of these sources in participatory planning. Lejos de representar un arcaísmo o una rémora del pasado, los pastos comunales constituyen un recurso útil y valorado en muchos pueblos de España y de Europa. Generalmente, estos pastos se localizan en espacios naturales de alto valor paisajístico y medioambiental y, por lo tanto, en su gestión, además de los propios usuarios, es frecuente que se impliquen otros actores (administración regional, grupos conservacionista s y de desarrollo rural, etc.). La experiencia ha demostrado que cuando estos actores colaboran entre sí los beneficios suelen ser numerosos, pues ello permite, por ejemplo, sumar diferentes formas de interpretar y analizar el recurso. En concreto, un conocimiento de interés que pueden aportar los grupos de usuarios es su historia de gobernanza, que comprende criterios de gestión diseñados por distintas generaciones. Sin embargo, acudir a este conocimiento puede resultar problemático, ya que, con el transcurrir de los años, es habitual que los usuarios hayan perdido una parte importante del mismo. El objetivo de este artículo es demostrar lo conveniente de hacer uso del archivo histórico para compilar la historia de gobernanza de usuarios de pastos comunales. Asimismo, se detalla una propuesta metodológica que facilita el análisis de este tipo de fuentes en el marco de la planificación participativa.
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title_short Historical archive sources as knowledge for the current management of common pastures
title_full Historical archive sources as knowledge for the current management of common pastures
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Dismantling the divide between indigenous and scientific knowledge. Development and Change, 26: 413-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x Agrawal, A., 2005. Environmentality, technologies of government and the making of subjects. Duke University Press: 325 pp., Durham. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386421 Baland, J.M. & Platteau, J.P., 1996. Halting degradation of natural resources. Is there a role for rural communities? FAO - Oxford University Press: 423 pp., Oxford. Ban, N.C., Mills, M., Tam, J., Hicks, C.C., Klain, S., Stoeckl, N., Bottrill, M.C., Levine, J., Pressey, R.L., Satterfield, T. & Chan, K. M., 2013. A social-ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11(4): 194-202. https://doi.org/10.1890/110205 Basurto, X., Kingsley, G., McQueen, K., Smith, M. & Weible, C.M., 2010. A systematic approach to institutional analysis: applying Crawford and Ostrom's grammatical syntax. Political Science Quarterly, 63(3): 523-537. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912909334430 Baur, I. & Binder, C.R., 2013. Adapting to socioeconomic developments by changing rules in the governance of common property pastures in the Swiss Alps. Ecology and Society, 18(4): 60. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05689-180460 Benton, T.G., Vickery, J.A. & Wilson, J.D., 2003. Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18(4): 182-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00011-9 Berkes, F., Colding, J. & Folke, C., 2000. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological Applications, 10(5): 1251-1262. https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1251:ROTEKA]2.0.CO;2 Berkes, F., 2007. Community-based conservation in a globalized world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 25(104): 15188-15193. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0702098104 PMid:17881580 PMCid:PMC2000555 Berkes, F., 2009. Evolution of co-management: role of knowledge generation, bridging organizations and social learning. Journal of Environmental Management, 90: 1692-1702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.12.001 PMid:19110363 Bocanegra, R., 2008. Bienes comunales y vecinales. Iustel: 160 pp., Madrid. Borrini, G., Pimbert, M., Taghi, M., Kothari, A. & Renard, Y., 2007, Eds. Sharing power. Learning-by-doing in co-management of natural resources throughout the world. Earthscan: 498 pp., London. Busqué, J., Méndez, S. & Fernández, B., 2003. Estructura, crecimiento y aprovechamiento de pastos de puerto cantábricos invadidos o no por lecherina (Euphorbia polygalifolia). Pastos, 33: 283-303. Carlsson, L. & Berkes, F., 2005. Co-management: concepts and methodological implications. Journal of Environmental Management, 75: 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.11.008 PMid:15748804 Carvajal, A., 2017. Prácticas colectivas y gestión de los espacios agrarios en la Alta Edad Media: una perspectiva comparada desde Irlanda y el noroeste de la península Ibérica. Historia Agraria, 73: 151-183. https://doi.org/10.26882/HistAgrar.073E06c Chambers, R., 2006. Participatory Mapping and Geographic Information Systems: Whose map? Who is empowered and who disempowered? Who gains and who loses? EJISDC, 25 (2): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1681-4835.2006.tb00163.x Cook, T., 1997. What is past is prologue: a history of archival ideas since 1898, and the future paradigm shift. Archivaria, 43: 17-63. Corbera, M., 2010. Geografía histórica del paisaje de un valle montañés: el valle de Lamasón. Gobierno de Cantabria: 236 pp., Santander. Davidova, S. & Thomson, K., 2014. Family farming in Europe: challenges and prospects. AGRI Committee, European Parliament. Davidson, I.J. & O'Flaherty, R.M., 2007. Researchers, indigenous peoples, and place-based learning communities. Society and Natural Resources, 20: 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920601161312 Demélas, M.D. & Vivier, N., 2003, Eds. Les propriétés collectives face aux attaques libérales 1750-1914. Europe occidentale et Amérique latine. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 337 pp., Rennes. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pur.23641 De Moor, T., Shaw-Taylor, L. & Warde, P., 2002, Eds. The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500- 1850. Brepols Publishers: 261 pp., Turnhout. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CORN-EB.5.105947 De Moor, T., 2007. La función del común. La trayectoria de un comunal en Flandes durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. En: R. Congost y J. M. Lana (eds.), Campos cerrados, debates abiertos: análisis histórico y propiedad de la tierra en Europa (siglos XVI-XIX), Universidad Pública de Navarra, 111-139 pp., Pamplona. De Moor, T., Laborda, M., Lana, J. M., Van Weeren, R. & Winchester, A., 2016. Ruling the commons. Introducing a new methodology for the analysis of historical commons. International Journal of the Commons, 10(2): 529-588. https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.760 Fernández-Giménez, M.E. & Fillat, F. 2012. Pyrenean pastoralists' ecological knowledge: documentation and application to natural resource management and adaptation. Human Ecology, 40: 287-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9463-x Fillat, F., 2003. Gestión semi-extensiva de prados y pastos europeos ricos en especies. Caso particular de los Pirineos españoles. Pastos, XXXIII (2): 171-215. Fillat, F., García-González, R., Gómez, D. & R. Reiné, 2008, Coords. Pastos del Pirineo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Diputación de Huesca: 319 pp., Madrid. Fischer, J. & Lindenmayer, D.B., 2007. Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16: 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00287.x Folke, C., Colding, J. & Berkes, F., 2003. Synthesis: building resilience and adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems. En: F. Berkes, J. Colding y C. Folke (eds.), Navigating social-ecological systems: building resilience for complexity and change, Cambridge University Press, 352-387 pp., Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541957.020 Ford, J.D., Smit, B. & Wandel, J., 2006. Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: a case study from Arctic Bay, Canada. Global Environmental Change, 16: 145-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.11.007 García-González, R., Reiné, R., Pérez, S., Gartzia, M. & Gómez, D., 2007. Comportamiento de ovinos en pastoreo libre y guiado por pastor en un puerto pirenaico. Actas de la XLVI Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española para el Estudio de los Pastos, pp. 400-407, Vitoria. García Sanz, A., 1985. Introducción. En: A. García Sanz y R. Garrabou (eds.), Historia agraria de la España contemporánea, 1. 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A review of tools for incorporating community knowledge, preferences, and values into decision making in natural resources management. Ecology and Society, 12(1): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01987-120105 Derechos de autor 2019 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Pirineos; Vol. 174 (2019); e045 1988-4281 0373-2568 10.3989/pirineos.2019.v174 Common-pool resources historical archive sources institutional memory participatory planning Bienes comunales archivo histórico memoria institucional gestión participativa info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftjpirineos https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2019.174005 https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2019.v174 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386421 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0702098104 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.je 2022-02-22T15:47:42Z Far from representing an anachronism, common pastures are a valuable resource for many European village communities. Generally, these pastures are located in natural areas of high environmental value, and therefore many stakeholders are involved in their management: e.g. user communities, government agencies, NGOs. Experience has shown that collaboration among these stakeholders can be very useful, as this enables synthesis of different ways of analyzing the resource. Specifically, a valuable type of knowledge that user communities can supply is their governance history, which includes a set of management strategies designed by different generations. However, compiling this knowledge can be problematic, because, over time, user communities have usually lost a part of it. In this paper we show the benefits of using historical archive sources to compile the governance history of village communities that have used common pastures for long time periods. In addition, we provide a novel methodology that facilitates the analysis of these sources in participatory planning. Lejos de representar un arcaísmo o una rémora del pasado, los pastos comunales constituyen un recurso útil y valorado en muchos pueblos de España y de Europa. Generalmente, estos pastos se localizan en espacios naturales de alto valor paisajístico y medioambiental y, por lo tanto, en su gestión, además de los propios usuarios, es frecuente que se impliquen otros actores (administración regional, grupos conservacionista s y de desarrollo rural, etc.). La experiencia ha demostrado que cuando estos actores colaboran entre sí los beneficios suelen ser numerosos, pues ello permite, por ejemplo, sumar diferentes formas de interpretar y analizar el recurso. En concreto, un conocimiento de interés que pueden aportar los grupos de usuarios es su historia de gobernanza, que comprende criterios de gestión diseñados por distintas generaciones. Sin embargo, acudir a este conocimiento puede resultar problemático, ya que, con el transcurrir de los años, es habitual que los usuarios hayan perdido una parte importante del mismo. El objetivo de este artículo es demostrar lo conveniente de hacer uso del archivo histórico para compilar la historia de gobernanza de usuarios de pastos comunales. Asimismo, se detalla una propuesta metodológica que facilita el análisis de este tipo de fuentes en el marco de la planificación participativa. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Pirineos (E-Journal) Pirineos 174 045