Historically and at the present time there have been a variety of arrangements that have mediated the relationship between users and resources held in common. While some of these pertain to matters of tenure, there are many other kinds of relationships that are mediated through customs, practices, and institutions developed in both traditional and contemporary context. These arrangements may take formal and legal shape or may be realized through informal mechanisms, they may also function at different levels of organization. Thus arrangements may be institutionalized at the level of villages, water user associations may function as multi-village federations, Biodiversity Management Committees at Panchayat level, injunctions and restraints on access to water, pasture, lopping etc. may be informal and dependent on local consensus, and so on. Discussions pertaining to such arrangements, other than tenurial relationships, may be taken up here.

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