The Commons in a Glocal World

This volume investigates how global players such as multinational companies and organizations affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global-local (glocal) world.

Introduction: commons in a 'glocal' world PART I Key reflections: new theoretical issues on the commons and their transformations 1 Shared ownership as a key issue of Swiss history: common-pool resources, common property institutions and their impact on the political culture of Switzerland from the beginnings to our days 2 Social causality of our common climate crisis: towards a sociodicy for the Anthropocene 3 Disruption, community, and resilient governance: environmental justice in the Anthropocene 4 A definition of the commons, between human rights, resistance, and social change 5 Towards a new institutional political ecology: how to marry external effects, institutional change and the role of power and ideology in commons studies PART II European examples from past and present SECTION 2.1 Historical approaches 6 Common challenges, different fates. The causal factors of failure or success in the commons: the pre-modern Brecklands (England) and the Campine (Southern Low Countries) compared 7 For the common good: regulating the Lake Constance fisheries from 1350 to 1800 8 The commons in highland and lowland Switzerland over time: transformations in their organisation and survival strategies (seventeenth to twentieth century) 9 From natural supply to financial yields: the common fields of the Bernese Civic Corporation since the seventeenth century SECTION 2.2 Current commons and innovation issues 10 Universal values and the protection of commons: fighting corruption with bottom- up process in Mallorca 11 Constitutionality and identity: bottom- up institution building and identity among Coastal Sami in Northern Norway 12 Swiss alpine pastures as common property: a success story of bottom