ABSTRACT
Sustainability of community-based natural resource management regimes depends on the capacity to mobilise against external threats and participate in social movements. In this chapter we explore the validity of this conjecture via a meta-analysis of case studies where local resource user communities have mobilised against decommonisation threats. We first characterise the drivers of the threats and their impacts on the essential characteristics of commons management. We then assess the extent to which social movements contribute to “commonisation” processes. We show that, although some “decommonisation” drivers and impacts are more recurrent than others, they tend to occur in bundles and might be better studied as such. Although movements can be understood as responses to “decommonisation” challenges, their benefits usually go beyond protecting communities from the resulting impacts.
