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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... concern . We express our concern about such entities through assignment of exis- tence rights and values . This has often led to conflicting priorities between the physically proximate , who control access to resources , and the more ...
... concern about PWCs in coastal commons is remark- able . To understand how the public and elected officials rank the ... concern ( fig . 9.4 ) . Some issues were of low concern to all three groups ( small boats , sailboats , windsurfing ...
... concern for atmospheric qual- ity constitute significant obstacles to successful atmospheric management . Such factors include the stealth of atmospheric threats and lack of public understanding of relevant atmospheric processes ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
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