Governance and Best Practices of Common Property Resources Management in Tripura

Abstract

A number of people in India depend on common property resources for their means of subsistence such as forests, wastelands, grazing land, water resources, and so on. However, cultivating these common resources with community support in order to achieve sustainable development is not only an unavoidable task but also a challenging one for the people who live in rural areas. People who reside in rural areas, particularly people who are members of tribal communities in Tripura, rely on common property resources as an essential source of income for their households. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyse the most effective procedures and governance systems that community members and local village panchayats in Tripura have used for the purpose of the management of common property resources in order to establish sustainable communities.