Are the communal forest owners involved in the management of their lands?: A qualitative analysis for the case of Galicia (Spain)

Pérez, Milagros Fernández; Calvo-González, Alexia; Domínguez-Torres, Gloria

doi:10.4067/s0717-92002014000200008

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“…In line with other literature (e.g. Marey-Pérez et al, 2014;Le Tourneau and Beaufort, 2017), our cases show how formal laws giving property rights, together with practices to manage resources in common (e.g. decision-making for defining uses and rules) are not enough to build communities and assure environmental sustainability.…”

Section: Resources In Common Build a Household Economysupporting

confidence: 86%

“…Thus, although some common lands have been devolved to local communities and even regulated by laws (Bravo and De Moor, 2008), many lack the practices sustaining human and more-than-human communities (e.g. García Quiroga, 2013;Grupo dos Comúns, 2006;Marey-Pérez et al, 2014. Forming communities, we argue, de-commodifies commons lands' resources "in the mind of people" (Fournier, 2013).…”

Section: A Research Agenda To Critically Study Human and More-thanhuman Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 90%

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Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities

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The most critical question for sustainability research is how to facilitate transformative change. Yet, the academic scope of historical commons' research is limited to institutional design and environmental sustainability. In this paper we argue for a transformative research agenda for historical commons focused on the study of processes building humans and more-than-human communities. We start by reviewing three commons schools, namely the mainstream and critical institutionalism and the community economies collective, and assess how these relate to sustainability and to theories on agency, community and change. We then define a research agenda taking a political and critical ontology of the community economies collective, and a phenomenological epistemology of critical institutionalism. We follow by characterising the underlying practices building humans and more-than human communities by showing three ideal stages of commoning found in our empirical cases in the north-western Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). Finally, we end by presenting a guiding framework for analysing processes of building communities in historical commons. In conclusion, we encourage further exploration of underlying practices that widen humans' interdependency and inter-being and call for action-research projects and experimental methods that promote transformative encounters between humans and nature. Our framework is a first attempt to inspire researchers of historical commons to actively engage in unravelling the full potential of historical commons as sites of transformation.

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Section: Resources In Common Build a Household Economysupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: A Research Agenda To Critically Study Human and More-thanhuman Communitiesmentioning

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Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities

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“…The autonomous community of Galicia (Figure 1), located in the northwest region of Spain, is an eminent agroforestry region, with a high actual and potential productivity [52][53][54]. In particular, this region stands out for its emerging forestry sector; around 61% of its territory is forested land (1.8 M ha), of which more than 1.4 M ha is wooded forest producing 9.7 million m 3 of wood per year, a volume that represents 50% of the annual felling in Spain [55].…”

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Influence of the Declaration of Protected Natural Areas on the Evolution of Forest Fires in Collective Lands in Galicia (Spain)

Rodríguez

Vicente

Pérez

2022

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Since the adoption of European Union Council Directive 92/43 on the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora, some opposition has arisen among owners and managers of land affected by the directive. Some studies have indicated that some of this opposition has found expression in subsequent arson fires in these areas. This article analyses the occurrence of arson fires in the SACs (Special Areas of Conservation) included in the European ecological network, Natura 2000, in Galicia (Spain), more specifically in the montes vecinales en mano común (MVMCs), which are privately owned collective lands. We tested whether the declaration of SACs had a statistical impact on the forest fire regime in the period 1999–2014. The analyses focused on the sub-periods of 1999–2004 and 2005–2014, i.e., before and after the approval of the list of sites of community importance in the study area in December 2004. The results obtained show that, after the declaration of protection, there was a statistically significant increase in the area burnt by fire in these areas, mainly on private estates. We also found that the percentage of arson fires after 2004 was higher in SACs than in other territorial units. We found that the percentage of arson fires was reduced less in SACs than in other territorial units. Furthermore, we found that the area burnt per fire after 2004 in SACs was almost double that in the MVMC-SACs (12.04 ha versus 6.64 ha), so it can be concluded that the conservationist policies of the Natura 2000 network in Galicia have not had a positive effect on the forest fire regime.

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“…Thus, although some common lands have been devolved to local communities and even regulated bylaws (Bravo and De Moor, 2008), many lack the practices sustaining human and more-than-human communities (e.g. García Quiroga, 2013;Grupo dos Comúns, 2006;Marey-Pérez et al, 2014. Forming communities, we argue, de-commodifies commons lands' resources "in the mind of people" (Fournier, 2013).…”

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“…Yet, previous research highlights the low involvement or passive participation in many historical commons in Europe (e.g. Brown, 2006;Gatto and Bogataj, 2015;Marey-Pérez et al, 2014;Marey-Pérez et al, 2010;Premrl et al, 2015;Serra et al, 2017). Some explanatory factors are the steep decline of the traditional economic functions and the failure of policies to incorporate new potential functions and values (e.g.…”

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(Re)building historical commons : Exploring forest commoning as a transformative practice in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

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Table of contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction1.1. Commons and sustainability transformations 1.2.Towards an integrated framework to study forest commoning 1.3.Methodology: a place-based participatory research 1.4.Case study selection and characteristics 1.5.Data collection and analysis: a progressive contextualization 1.6.Outline of the thesis CHAPTER 2 Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities 'If our species does not survive the ecological crisis, it will probably be due to our failure... to work out new ways to live with the earth, to rework ourselves... We will go onwards in a different mode of humanity, or not at all' 13 Within these ethics and values, however, the commoners' agency is relational, influenced by their (power) position in the network of relations and their daily interactions with others. This relational understanding of agency and community transcends the usual divisions between self and community, between the human and non-human, allowing the development of a richer understanding of agency, one that is able to better incorporate the manifold political, social, moral, and affective dimensions of agency (Nightingale 2011).Further elaborating on the work of such authors as Singh (2018b), Nightingale (2019) and García-López et al. ( 2021), I conceptualise commoning in this thesis as a socio-natural process of reconnecting communities to forests. This includes fostering caring and responsible attitudes towards forests that create political more-thanhuman communities. This approach denaturalizes forests, turning the human-forest relationship itself into the main object of study. Commoning socio-natural practices in forests contribute to the (re)production of communities in terms of livelihoods, but they also (re)create identities, cultures and political subjectivities. Socio-natural practices are thus 'affective', indicating how commoners, communities and forests are co-constituted through commoning practices.The main question that guides this research is the following:• How does commoning help us to better understand and enhance the agency of commoners in community forests and their contribution to sustainability transformations?The purpose of this overarching question is to focus on the development a model of agency that better explains why and how people engage with community forests and the practices, meanings and outcomes that emerge from this. In this way, the relevance and role of community forests -or better, the commoning initiatives emerging within these contexts -to sustainability transformations can be analysed and discussed in a critical manner. The focus is thus the agency of commoners and the in-between process by which forest and commoners are co-constituted; it does not include ecological measurements that quantify forest change.Place-based research can identify the structures that limit sustainability transformations and need to be changed. The implementation of policies and practices can only find its most ...

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Are the communal forest owners involved in the management of their lands?: A qualitative analysis for the case of Galicia (Spain)

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities

Historical commons as sites of transformation. A critical research agenda to study human and more-than-human communities

Influence of the Declaration of Protected Natural Areas on the Evolution of Forest Fires in Collective Lands in Galicia (Spain)

(Re)building historical commons : Exploring forest commoning as a transformative practice in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

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