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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... effects can be seen from local to global scales . The global accumulation of trace gases from agricultural intensification is altering the atmospheric commons , with possible effects on climate . Institutional reac- tions to this ...
... Effects of Ultraviolet - Radiation on the Biology of Amphibians . ” American Zoologist 37 ( 2 ) : 137–45 . Longstreth , J. D. , F. R. Degruijl , M. L. Kripke , Y. Takizawa , and J. C. Vanderleun . 1995 . " Effects of Increased Solar ...
... Effects in Indigenous Peoples In Alaska , indigenous peoples who consume large quantities of subsistence foods from the sea may be exposed to potentially toxic chemicals . The risks to human health that are of the most concern in ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
Copyright | |
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