Protecting the Commons
A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas
Island Press
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-55963-738-1 (ISBN)
Description
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: - gives a concise update on commons use and scholarship - offers eleven case studies of commons, examined through the lens provided by leading commons theorist Elinor Ostrom - provides a review of tools such as Geographic Information Systems that are useful for decision-making - examines environmental justice issues relevant to commons 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.
The book: - gives a concise update on commons use and scholarship - offers eleven case studies of commons, examined through the lens provided by leading commons theorist Elinor Ostrom - provides a review of tools such as Geographic Information Systems that are useful for decision-making - examines environmental justice issues relevant to commons 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55963-738-1 (9781559637381)
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Bernard D. Goldstein | David Policansky | Joanna Burger
Protecting the Commons
A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas
E-Book
10/2013
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
€40.99
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