Emerging Trends in Village Resource Utilization

The impending ecological crisis has generated a lot of debate on the use of natural resources. Since the publication of Hardin’s (1968) ‘Tragedy of commons’, there has been a steady increase in the literature on the common property resources, their use, decline, and management Though the existing literature contributed significantly towards understanding the dynamics of resource use pattern, there is need for better understanding of the empirical reality at micro-level The present paper focuses on the dynamics of the use of common property resources by different Jatis pursuing diverse occupations in a village setting. Traditionally different jati groups in the village de-pended on a CPR for then livelihood and harnessed these resources in a sutainable way Institutional, developmental. and market factors altered the resource utilization pattern in the village. Resultant depletion of CPR’s had its impact on various occupational groups. By delineating emerging trends in resource utilization at microlevel, cretain recommendations for sustainable use of these resources are brought out

Agriculture · Business · Common-pool resource · Commons · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Exploitation of natural resources · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Resource use · Tragedy of the commons · Agricultural Systems and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management