Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

Ludomir Lozny is an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College, CUNY and principle investigator in culture resource management and environmental impact studies, with 30 years of experience in academic teaching and research.  Lozny’s fieldwork is primarily in North America and Europe. His research comprises interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches and areas of expertise include archaeology, social anthropology, complex societies, social theory and methodology, sustainability, governance and management of the commons, and human and historical ecology in global perspective. He is Managing Editor of the journal Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal and coeditor of two book series, Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation and Springer Briefs in Human Ecology (with Daniel Bates), for Springer Nature. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Human Ecodynamics Research Center (HERC) at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center.Tom McGovern is a professor with 39 years of teaching experience at the City University of New York. He coordinates the international, interdisciplinary research and education cooperative North Atlantic Biocultural Organization, and collaborates with the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) teams, the Oceans Past Initiative, and the Humanities for Environment Circumpolar Observatory project. McGovern’s fieldwork centers on the North Atlantic islands (Faroes, Shetland, Orkney, Iceland, Greenland) and he has coordinated multi-investigator interdisciplinary projects bringing together hard science, social science, environmental humanities, local and traditional knowledge and education for sustainability scholars, and perspectives to engage with millennial scale human ecodynamics in this historically and environmentally critical region. He also currently serves as PI for an NSF project in Greenland.

• Foreword.- Introduction.- The Tragedy of the Commons: A Theoretical Update.- Who is in the Commons? Defining Community and Management Practices in Long Term Natural Resource Management.- Managing risk through cooperation: Need-based transfers and risk pooling among the societies of the Human Generosity Project.- Trolls, Water, Time, and Community: Resource Management in the Mývatn District of Northeast Iceland.- Organization of high-altitude summer pastures: the dialectics of conflict and cooperation.- Large-Scale Land Acquisition as Commons Grabbing: A comparative analysis of six African case studies.- Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Resource Management in the Chad Basin.- Mollusk Harvesting in the Pre-European Contact Pacific Islands: investigating Resilience and Sustainability.- Environment and Landscapes of Latin America’s Past.- Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Variability and Resiliency of Early Complex Societies in Mesoamerica.- The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management.- Identifying Common Pool Resources in the Archaeological Record: A Case Study of Water Commons from the North American Southwest.

“The papers in this volume reflect how the concept of ‘commons’ is re-emerging in many parts of the world as a cross-disciplinary way of integrating heritage management. All in all, this represents an uplifting read that presents positive solutions to resource management in the future.” (Antiquity, Vol. 94, 2020)“This volume provides a valuable and welcome contribution to international efforts to rethink local and global forms of collective action and the governance of natural resources, and will be of interest to a range of scholars and graduate students but also political and business officials.” (Ismael Vaccaro, Human Ecology, Vol. 48, 2020)