Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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Madeline Brown¹  Elspeth Ready² 

[1] Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park;Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology;Department of Anthropology, University of Florida

关键词: commons governance;    community-based natural resource management;    cooperation;    non-timber forest products;    social network analysis;    wild mushrooms;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-13601-270417

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Non-timber forest products, such as wild mushrooms, are important in rural livelihoods worldwide. As resource pressuresand environmental goals change, land tenure and harvesting arrangements also create novel conditions influencing local communities’resource access. When commons governance encourages (or discourages) cooperative resource harvesting, this may also impact othersocial ties among community members. Attention to social relationships that are created or limited under particular commonsgovernance regimes is a key part of holistically understanding their social and ecological impacts. We investigate cooperative mushroomharvesting ties in the context of local forest governance in a Yi community in rural Yunnan, China. We use quantitative and qualitativedescriptions, regression analysis, and network community detection to investigate how cooperative harvesting partnerships createdthrough the local wild mushroom management system interact with kinship, distance between households, clan affiliation, and networksof social support. The community detection results indicate that social support and cooperative harvesting are highly interdependent.Although social support ties are themselves predicted by household proximity, kinship, and clan membership, kinship ties are surprisinglya poor predictor of co-harvesting. The results suggest that a multiplex network approach is needed to understand how new naturalresource management systems may impact community-level social structure and cooperation.

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