Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines institutional approaches and approaches related to issues of power and post-colonial studies. It shows how global conservation trends affect local people in their usage of their cultural landscape ecosystem in the context of the international NGO African Parks Foundation in Nech Sar National Park. The book provides a definition of the commons, between human rights, resistance, and social change. It focuses on approach that combines human rights, tradition and resilience and draws on different types of commons urban, natural, digital combining theoretical considerations. The book also presents a number of founding elements in thoughts on the commons in Switzerland – a place that, since the work of Netting and Ostrom, is seen as a model for the sustainable management of common-pool resources.