'Institutional Shopping' for Natural Resource Management in a Protected Area and Indigenous Territory in the Bolivian Amazon.

Focusing on an overlapping protected area and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon, this article discusses how indigenous people continue to negotiate access to natural resources. Using the theoretical framework of New Institutionalism, ethnographic data from participatory observations, and interviews with Takana indigenous resource users and park management staff, we identified four phases of institutional change. We argue that under the current institutionally pluralistic setting in the overlapping area, indigenous users apply “institutional shopping” to choose, according to their power and knowledge, the most advantageous institutional framework in a situation. Indigenous users strategically employed arguments of conservation, indigeneity, or long-term occupation to legitimize their claims based on the chosen institution. Our results highlight the importance of ideologies and bargaining power in shaping the interaction of individuals and institutions. As a potential application of our research to practice, we suggest that rather than seeing institutional pluralism solely as a threat to successful resource management, the strengths of different frameworks may be combined to build robust institutions from the bottom up that are adapted to the local context. This requires taking into account local informal institutions, such as cultural values and beliefs, and integrating them with conservation priorities through cross-cultural participatory planning.

Lake Flower boat launch facility, Greater Adirondack RC&D area, Essex County, RC&D measure plan B1; Finding of no significant impact (FONSI) : environmental impact statement.

Mode of access: Internet.

Trends in urban roadway congestion: 1982 to 1991. Volume 2: methodology and urbanized area data.

Texas Department of Transportation, Austin

Final wilderness environmental impact statement for the Grand Junction Resource Area /

"November 1989"--Cover.

The Catoosa Wildlife Management Area, Cumberland and Morgan Counties.

Caption title.

Water facilities area plan for the Teton Basin, Teton County, Idaho and Teton County, Wyoming.

Mode of access: Internet.

Soil and water conservation investigations, progress report.

"Mimeographed for use of technical workers."

Ground water in the Niagara Falls area, New York, with emphasis on the water-bearing characteristics of the bedrock.

"Reports dealing with ground-water conditions in New York": p. 91-93.

Land use adjustment in the Spring creek area, Campbell county, Wyoming.

Cover-title.

Soil survey of Salt Lake area, Utah

"In cooperation with Utah Agricultural Experiment Station."

Soil survey ... Lake County area, Florida /

Includes indexes.

Soil survey of Chelan area, Washington : parts of Chelan and Kittitas Counties /

Prepared in cooperation with Washington Agricultural Experiment Station.

Soil survey of Baraga County area, Michigan /

Item 102-B-22.

A program for the purchase of a recreational area in the Porcupine Mountains /

"November, 1943."

Wisconsin Library network plan report : recommendations for network development at the area level /

WI docs. no: Ed.3/2:2250