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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... important for theory development and policy analysis . Most important are over - time studies that enable us to understand the dynamics of these systems . Further , serious theoretical work is needed to assess how much of the evolving ...
... importance of the chicle tree is fundamental to the con- servation of the Mayan tropical rain forests . It is an important species in terms of arboreal density and forest structure . Its fruits are an important food source for many ...
... important variable in predicting sea tenure and self - organization . Small - scale units permit more efficient handling of management issues , sharing of new biological information , and establish- ment of local rules ( Acheson et al ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
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