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Editors EDWARD GOLDSMITH NICHOLAS HILDYARD PETER BUNYARD PATRICK McCULLY Assistant Editors SARAH SEXTON SIMON FAIRLIE Associate Editors PATRICIA ADAMS Probe International (Canada) MARCUS COLCHESTER World Rainforest Movement (England) RAYMOND DASMANN University of California, Santa Cruz (USA) SAMUEL S. EPSTEIN University of Illinois (USA) ROSS HUME HALL (USA) SANDY IRVINE The Green Party (England) MICK KELLY University ofEastAnglia (England) MARTIN KHOR KOK PENG Consumers Association of Penang (Malaysia) SMITHU KOTHARI Lokayan Social Action Croup (India) SIGMUND KVAL0Y Ecopolitical Ring of Cooperation (Norway) LARRY LOHMANN (USA) JOHN MILTON (USA) JIMOH OMO-FADAKA African Environmental Network (Kenya) JOHNPAPWORTH Fourth World Review (England) ROBERT PRESCOTT-ALLEN PADATA (Canada) JOHN SEED Rainforest Information Centre (Australia) VANDANA SHIVA Research Centre for Science and Ecology (India) HENRYK SKOLIMOWSKJ University of Michigan (USA) ROBERT WALLER Commonwealth Human Ecology Centre (England) RICHARD WILLSON (England) DONALD WORSTER University of Kansas (USA) EDITORIAL OFFICE, AGRICULTURE HOUSE, BATH ROAD, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DORSET, DT10 1DU, ENGLAND, UK. TEL +44-258-73476 FAX +44-258-73748 E-MAIL GN:ECOLOGIST The Ecologis t Vol. 22, No. 4, July/August 1992 Whose Common Future? A Specia l Issu e The Earth Summit Debacle 122 The Commons: Where the Community Has Authority. 123 What constitutes a commons regime • How it operates • Who controls it • What distinguishes it from public management and private enter­ prise. Development as Enclosure 131 Enclosure of commons over the last five centuries • In pre-industrial England • In the colonies • In the neo-colonial era • In the developed countries today. The Encompassing Web 149 The many dimensions and compound effects of enclosure • The impact on values • Enclosure and forms of exchange • A new political order • Roles redefined • The emergence of experts • Enclosure, language and systems of knowledge. Power: The Central Issue 157 The networks of power that combine to block any resurgence of the commons • The role of corporations in agriculture • The power of the transnationals • Global connections • How the powerful cope with the threat of environmentalism. Mainstream Solutions: Further Enclosure 165 The Earth Summit's main responses to the environmental crisis • "Poverty is the problem" • "The earth's resources must be costed" • "The global environment must be managed" • "Populations must be controlled" • "Technology must be transferred from North to South" • "The flow of capital to the South must be increased". Reclaiming the Commons 195 Communities around the world are determined to safeguard, to revive or to recreate their commons • Their land and environment • Their ver­ nacular knowledge • Their community-controlled markets • Their arenas for decision-making • The commons in everyday life. A Concluding Remark 205 References 206 Cover photograph by Mark Edwards. The Ecologist is printed on recycled paper whitened with hydrogen peroxide The Ecologist, Vol. 22, No. 4, July/August 1992 121

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Editors EDWARD GOLDSMITH NICHOLAS HILDYARD

PETER BUNYARD PATRICK McCULLY Assistant Editors

SARAH SEXTON SIMON FAIRLIE Associate Editors

PATRICIA ADAMS Probe International

(Canada) MARCUS COLCHESTER World Rainforest Movement

(England) RAYMOND DASMANN University of California,

Santa Cruz (USA) SAMUEL S. EPSTEIN

University of Illinois

(USA) ROSS HUME HALL

(USA) SANDY IRVINE The Green Party

(England) MICK KELLY University ofEastAnglia

(England) MARTIN KHOR KOK PENG

Consumers Association of

Penang (Malaysia) SMITHU KOTHARI Lokayan Social Action

Croup (India) SIGMUND KVAL0Y Ecopolitical Ring of Cooperation

(Norway) LARRY LOHMANN

(USA) JOHN MILTON

(USA) JIMOH OMO-FADAKA African Environmental

Network (Kenya) JOHNPAPWORTH Fourth World Review

(England) ROBERT PRESCOTT-ALLEN

PADATA (Canada) JOHN SEED Rainforest Information Centre

(Australia) VANDANA SHIVA Research Centre for Science

and Ecology (India) HENRYK SKOLIMOWSKJ

University of Michigan

(USA) ROBERT WALLER Commonwealth Human Ecology Centre

(England) RICHARD WILLSON

(England) DONALD WORSTER University of Kansas

(USA) EDITORIAL OFFICE, AGRICULTURE HOUSE, BATH ROAD, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DORSET,

DT10 1DU, ENGLAND, UK. TEL +44-258-73476 FAX +44-258-73748

E-MAIL GN:ECOLOGIST

The

Ecologis t Vol. 22, No. 4, July/August 1992

Whose Common Future?

A Specia l Issu e

The Earth Summit Debacle 122

The Commons: Where the Community Has Authority. 123 What constitutes a commons regime • How it operates • Who controls it • What distinguishes it from public management and private enter­ prise.

Development as Enclosure 131 Enclosure of commons over the last five centuries • In pre-industrial England • In the colonies • In the neo-colonial era • In the developed countries today.

The Encompassing Web 149 The many dimensions and compound effects of enclosure • The impact on values • Enclosure and forms of exchange • A new political order • Roles redefined • The emergence of experts • Enclosure, language and systems of knowledge.

Power: The Central Issue 157 The networks of power that combine to block any resurgence of the commons • The role of corporations in agriculture • The power of the transnationals • Global connections • How the powerful cope with the threat of environmentalism.

Mainstream Solutions: Further Enclosure 165 The Earth Summit's main responses to the environmental crisis • "Poverty is the problem" • "The earth's resources must be costed" • "The global environment must be managed" • "Populations must be controlled" • "Technology must be transferred from North to South" • "The flow of capital to the South must be increased".

Reclaiming the Commons 195 Communities around the world are determined to safeguard, to revive or to recreate their commons • Their land and environment • Their ver­ nacular knowledge • Their community-controlled markets • Their arenas for decision-making • The commons in everyday life.

A Concluding Remark 205

References 206 Cover photograph by Mark Edwards. The Ecologist is printed on recycled paper whitened with hydrogen peroxide

The Ecologist, Vol. 22, No. 4, July/August 1992

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