期刊名称:International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
印刷版ISSN:1946-3138
出版年度:2015
卷号:7
期号:1
页码:89-108
DOI:10.1080/19463138.2014.982124
语种:English
出版社:Taylor & Francis Group
摘要:Common pool resources located in the peri-urban interface (PUI) of rapidly growing cities in the global South are being severely impacted by rapid urbanisation. The rapid increase in urban land uses has transformed agricultural landscape around fresh water lakes that are part of the urban ecological commons of the south Indian city of Bengaluru. The marked land degradation has adversely impacted water availability for local citizens and livelihoods of traditional users. Changes in institutions for management and a transformed social demography that follows rapid urbanisation have made collective action challenging. This has had implications resulting in weakened protection of these urban commons. By using insights from equity and ecology, the impacts of urbanisation on collective access and management of the commons, essential for sustainable and equitable urban growth in the global South, were analysed successfully.