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  • Case Study Watershed management, Thung Kao Hang, Lamphun province, northern Thailand (IV)

    Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Thung Kao Hang, Lamphun province, Thailand
    This paper examines four case studies of community-based watershed management with emphasis on their operational decision-making arrangements. Even though legally the watersheds are state property, 73% of the villagers consider them communal property. All the case studies established community-based regimes …

  • Case Study Whaling Practices among the Makah Indians, Neah Bay, Washington State, USA

    Resource: Marine ecosystem Location: Neah Bay, Washington, USA
    The case examines the whaling practices of the Makah Indians of Washington State. After practicing whaling for thousands of years, the Makah were forced to stop due to commercial whaling during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the 1990s, …

  • Case Study World-Earth System Governance

    Resource: Global ecological systems Location: Global (land)
    This case is a focal point for 'gobal' models - i.e. modes with no particular spatial resolution.  There are many of these - any economic growth model with some sort of ecological constraint.

  • Case Study Yanesha Forest Cooperative, Palcazú valley, central Peru

    Resource: Forest ecosystem and associated watershed Location: Yanesha community, Palcazú valley, Peru
    The Yanesha forest community is located in the Palcazú valley of central Peru. The case study involves a snapshot in time during which the Yanesha Forestry Cooperative (COFYAL) operated in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Timber and a variety …

  • Case Study Yuracare forest community, Department of Cochabamba, northern Bolivia

    Resource: Forest ecosystem and associated watershed Location: Yuracare, Cochabamba, northern Bolivia
    The Yuracare forest community is located in the department of Cochabamba, in northern Bolivia.  It encompasses a geographical area of 250,000 ha in the Rio Charape watershed. The case study spans from early 1990s to 1997, and catalogues an action …

  • Case Study Zanjera Danum indigenous irrigation system, Dingras municipality, Ilocos Norte, Philippines

    Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Several villages, Dingras municipality, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
    Zanjera Danum is an indigineous irrigation system located in the extreme eastern portion of the coastal lowlands in the municipality of Dingras, Ilocos Norte in the Philippines. The resource appropriated is water for irrigation of approximately 1500 ha of rice …