Protecting the Commons: A Framework For Resource Management In The AmericasJoanna Burger Island Press, 2001 - 360 pages Commons—lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species—are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs. Protecting the Commons provides an important analytical framework for understanding commons issues and for designing policies to deal with them. The product of a symposium convened by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) to mark the 30th anniversary of Garrett Hardin's seminal essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” the book brings together leading scholars and researchers on commons issues to offer both conceptual background and analysis of the evolving scientific understanding on commons resources. The book:
Contributors include Alpina Begossi, William Blomquist, Joanna Burger, Tim Clark, Clark Gibson, Michael Gelobter, Michael Gochfeld, Bonnie McCay, Pamela Matson, Richard Norgaard, Elinor Ostrom, David Policansky, Jeffrey Richey, Jose Sarukhan, and Edella Schlager. Protecting the Commons represents a landmark study of commons issues that offers analysis and background from economic, legal, social, political, geological, and biological perspectives. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned with commons and commons resources, including students and scholars of environmental policy and economics, public health, international affairs, and related fields. |
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... appropriators organizing themselves to avoid the social losses associated with open - access , common - pool resources ( McKean 2000 ; Wade 1994 ; Schlager 1990 ; Tang 1992 ; Ostrom 1990 , 1992a , 1992b ; Baland and Platteau 1996 ...
... appropriators , the distri- bution of costs and benefits is more likely to benefit K and may impose costs on the A - K other appropriators ( see Walker et al . 2000 ) . The attributes of a resource ( listed above ) affect both the ...
... appropriators . Appropriators with many other viable and attractive options , who thus discount the impor- tance of future income from a particular resource ( A3 ) , may prefer to " mine " one resource without spending resources to ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
Copyright | |
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