SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF COMMON-POOL RESOURCES BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES
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FIGURE 2.25 Communities around the world have owned and sustainably managed common-pool resources for centuries without outside intervention. For example, irrigation systems in Nepal (left), which have been built and successfully managed for centuries by communities of local farmers, supply water to over 70% of the irrigated lands in the country. Community management has also sustained the productivity and health of grazing lands (right) in the Basque Country of northern Spain for centuries.
(Godong/UIG/age footstock) (Arturo Elosegi)