>I have an honours student in Human Geography who is presently
>writing a 20,000 word thesis on Aboriginal resource management on
>Cape York Peninsula. She is keen to find references to similar
>studies, particularly those which might look at the impacts of major
>resource projects on indigenous peoples' resource uses,
>management and aspirations.
It's a bit tough to suggest literature without more specfic knowledge of
your students research interests and what she has already read.
Some good places to start would be:
The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
edited by Bonnie McCay and James Acheson 1987
and
Common Property Resources, Ecology and Community Based Sustainable Developemnt
edited by Fikret Berkes 1989
both these books are collections of papers covering a wide variety of
common common property regimes most of which are managed by indigenous
people. Your student will likely find several articles of interest in
these books or at least the books' bibliographies should be able to point
her towards other sources.
A more theoeretical book, on the analysis of common property regimes is
Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Instituions for Collective Action
by Elinor Ostrom 1990
Hope these references are of some help.
Garry Peterson
Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Ecological Sciences Laboratory
Unviersity of Florida