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Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution.This book argues that the division of essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity. Voice is the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed. Reflexivity is the opportunity to question one's own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a collective learning process. Having investigated the allocation of essential resources in places as varied as Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, the arid American West, and peri-urban areas in West Africa, the contributors to this volume largely concur with the viability of this policy and normative framework. Drawing on their expertise in law, environmental studies, anthropology, history, political science, and economics, they weigh the potential of Voice and Reflexivity against such alternatives as pricing mechanisms, property rights, common resource management, political might, or brute force.

Environmental policy --- Environmental management. --- Environmental law. --- Natural resources --- Water resources development. --- Water-supply --- Conservation of natural resources. --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Energy development --- Resource management (Natural resources) --- Resources management (Natural resources) --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental quality --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Management. --- Conservation --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- Environmental law --- Water resources development --- Conservation of natural resources

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Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an “other” which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions in this volume analyze characteristics and strategies of European and non-European identity discourses. Der Begriff, die Funktion und die Relevanz von ‚Identität‘ werden in unterschiedlichen geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen sehr kontrovers diskutiert. Der vorliegende Band befördert den inter- und transdisziplinären Dialog, indem er Beiträge aus der Anglistik, Ethnologie, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Psychologie, Slavistik und Islamwissenschaft versammelt. Sie analysieren Merkmale und Strategien inner- und außereuropäischer Identitätsdiskurse – nationale, regionale, lokale, religiöse, sprachliche – und widmen sich Themen wie der Bildung „verspäteter Nationen“ (Deutschland, Italien, Ukraine), Konflikten zwischen kulturellen und nationalen Identitätskonzepten, der Abgrenzung von einem als Alterität markierten ‚Anderen‘, Strategien der Etablierung und Kritik von Identitätsdiskursen in Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur und Medien sowie der Funktionalisierung von Ursprungsmythen in den imagined communities nationalistischer Ideologien.

Group identity. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Europe --- Civilization --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- European identity --- nation building --- concepts of identity