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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... chicle tree , which resulted in protection or propagation of chicozapote trees for thousands of years ( Sarukhán 1968 ) . Chicozapote is used not only for its latex , but also for its valued fruit , which has become increasingly ...
... chicle extraction ( Aldrete and Eccardi 1993 ) . A nature reserve in Belize regards chicle extraction as a means of obtaining income for the support of its conservation activities ( Evans and Hornbostel 1997 ) . Chicle clearly ...
... Chicle and its bio- logical content are an appealing alternative . Here again , as in the case of the vanilla or coffee of the Totonacs , soft intellectual property rights may play an important role . Collective trademarks identifying ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
Copyright | |
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