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The wandering commons: A conservation conundrum in the Dominican Republic

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  • Charles Geisler
  • Rees Warne
  • Alan Barton

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In contrast to the jeopardy caused to commonproperty regimes by conditions of open access, factorssuch as boundary ambiguity, shifts, and maintenancefailures are the causes of a different set of problemsin the Los Haitises National Park, a controversialprotected area in the Dominican Republic. Survey data,historical sources, and digital mapping informationoverlaying past boundary changes show that this areahas undergone two decades of design modifications inits perimeters. Despite a long history of communalownership in that country, there appears to be littlelikelihood of transforming this tradition into amodern common property regime of use to community andenvironment in the park‘s buffer zone. This is due, atleast in part, to its highly porous, constantlychanging boundary, a source of on-going, open-accessproblems among local cultivators peripheral to thepark. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

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  • Charles Geisler & Rees Warne & Alan Barton, 1997. "The wandering commons: A conservation conundrum in the Dominican Republic," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 14(4), pages 325-335, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:14:y:1997:i:4:p:325-335
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1007403505411
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    1. Stycos, J. Mayone & Duarte, Isis, 1994. "Parks, Population, And Resettlement In The Dominican Republic," Working Papers 11883, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Training Project.
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