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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... regulation . ( See Libecap 1995 for a discussion of efforts to use the courts to challenge the validity of de facto governance of inshore fisheries in the United States ; see also Alexander 1982. ) With the legal autonomy to make their ...
... regulation and enforce- ment . In the 1970s , U.S. efforts focused on controlling industrial chemical wastes and discharges and on reducing widespread adverse effects of human- made pollutants on the ecosystem . To do so , the ...
... Regulation Richey , J. , 333 , 340 Right , to organize , 29 , 30 Rights , 144-50 , 144–55 , 150-55 , 259 , 261 , 294 see also Access ; Law ; Property rights ; Regulation Risk management , 241 , 248 Riverine fisheries ( caboclos ) , 111 ...
Contents
Reformulating the Commons | 17 |
Local Commons | 38 |
Institutions for Local Governance | 71 |
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