Doctoral Dissertation Research: Conflict Between State and Community Property Regimes in Two Guatemalan Pine Forests

苏尼塔·P·克拉克大学雷迪，苏尼塔·P·克拉克大学当一个州和一个地方社区通过诉诸习惯法或成文法要求对同一资源拥有权利时，可能会出现领土冲突。这项研究将调查两个危地马拉松林：旧金山阿尔托和圣何塞·拉阿拉达的国家和共同财产制度之间的领土冲突。拟议研究的目的是确定国家和社区之间的领土冲突如何影响对资源的治理，习惯法的变化是否对所采用的冲突谈判方式以及冲突谈判的社会和环境结果产生重大影响。这项扩展的比较研究将采用对关键信息提供人的深入访谈、半结构调查、参与者观察、口述历史和航空照片的时间序列分析。这一结果将有助于进一步了解热带森林产权制度动态与景观变化之间的关系。

Reddy, Sunita P Clark University When both a state and a local community claim rights over the same resource by appealing to customary or statutory law, territorial conflict may arise. The study will investigate territorial conflict between the state and common property regimes in two Guatemalan pine forests: San Francisco El Alto and San Jose La Arada. The objectives of the proposed study are to determine how territorial conflict between states and communities affects governance of resources, whether variation in customary law is a significant influence on the mode of conflict negotiation utilized and the social and environmental outcomes of conflict negotiation. The extended comparative study will employ in-depth interviews of key informants, semi-structured surveys, participant observation, oral histories and times series analyses of aerial photographs. The result will contribute to further knowledge on the relationships between property regime dynamics and landscape change in tropical forests.