Socio-ecological resilience of the commons. A case of pastoral community in the Mountains of North-Eastern Andalusia (Spain)

P. Sanosa (1) , F. Ravera (2) , Pablo Domínguez (3, 4, 5)

1 UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
2 Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya.
3 GEODE - Géographie de l'environnement
4 ICTA - Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals
5 LASEG - Laboratory for the Analysis of Socio-Ecological Systems in a Global World

This research aims to observe and describe how a community adapts its governance system to a changing socioecological context, particularly implying the transformation of economical conceptions as well as linkages between culture and territory. We study this under the approach of Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (Borrini-Feyerabend et al., 2014), considering that pastoralist communities (among other ecosystem-based economies and cultures) have governed, managed, and conserved territories through constant readaptation over time and in front of multiple pressures and drivers of global change (Kothari et al., 2012). The case study is located in the mountain region of the Sierra de Segura (Fig.1a and 1b), being pastoralism a traditional and well adapted lifestyle to particular climatic and geographic conditions (cold winter, hot dry-summer, dry limestone soils, etc.).

Mots clés: Commons; resilience; Sierra de Segura; Spain

Domaines: Géographie; Sciences de l'environnement

P. Sanosa, F. Ravera, Pablo Domínguez. Socio-ecological resilience of the commons. A case of pastoral community in the Mountains of North-Eastern Andalusia (Spain). XVII Biennial IASC Conference, Jul 2019, Lima, Peru. ⟨10.26147/73ep-v603⟩. ⟨hal-03403546⟩