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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... emissions , and the 1988 Nitrogen Protocol called for a freeze in NO emis- sions at 1987 levels . In addition to the Sulfur and Nitrogen Protocols , there was also a protocol to reduce VOCs ( for importance of VOCs , see box 10.3 ) ...
... emissions increases will shortly swamp out emissions reductions proposed by developed nations . To lower the cost of compliance , the Kyoto Protocol provides what has been dubbed " when , what , and where flexibility . " " When ...
... emissions of the poor from the " luxury " emissions of the rich . ( Agarwal and Narain 1991 : 3 ) Figure 14.2 represents a test of this distinction with respect to current emissions of CO2 drawn from prior work ( Gelobter 2000b ) . It ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
Copyright | |
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