From this point of view, people in communities areeasily seen as part of a “use community” or as “appropriators,” and considered as a mass unit that shares consensus and culture to collectively practise effective resource management (McCay 2001). Therefore, theproblems are located in the use of co-operative actionsand participatory arrangements (Dove 1995). Participation is undertaken in the form of representatives in acommunity or group, assuming that they reflect thevoices of individual householders in decision-makingprocesses. In this respect, individuals in a society arelikely to be regarded as “an undifferentiated mass, a collection of ‘individual farmers’ and ‘decision makers”’(Ferguson 1994, 178). As long as they take the representational form of community participation, the decision-making processes in forming communal agreementsare likely to be dominated by the most powerful actors inthe community.