Property Rights and Environmental Problems: v. 1 & 2
Bruce Larson(Editor)
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 8. April 2003
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-0-7546-2245-1 (ISBN)
Description
More than one billion people presently live below the international poverty line of one USD a day. Many more are at the two USD a day level. This collection of articles provides an introduction to the economics literature on property rights and environmental problems, with a main focus on problems in developing countries where access to and control of environmental resources play a significant role in the health and welfare of the population.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 255 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-2245-1 (9780754622451)
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Content
The Conceptual Foundations: Institutions and Property: A. Irving Hallowell (1943) The Nature and Function of Property as a Social Institution; R.C.O. Matthews (1986) The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Growth; Oliver E. Williamson (2000) The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead. Property Regimes and Environmental Resources: S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup and Richard C. Bishop (1975) 'Common Property' as a Concept in Natural Resource Policy; Daniel W. Bromley (1992) The Commons, Common Property, and Environmental Policy; James A. Swaney (1990) Common Property, Reciprocity, and Community; Barry C. Field (1989) The Evolution of Property Rights. The Importance and Performance of Group Management Regimes: Paul Seabright (1993) Managing Local Commons: Theoretical Issues in Incentive Design; Edella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom (1992) Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis; Robert Wade (1987) The Management of Common Property Resources: Collective Action as an Alternative to Privatization or State Regulation; Joseph L. Sax (1983) Some Thoughts on the Decline of Private Property. Modelling Property Rights and the Environment: Property Regimes and Private Incentives: Robert Mendelsohn (1994) Property Rights and Tropical Deforestation; Bruce A. Larson and Daniel W. Bromley (1990) Property Rights, Externalities, and Resource Degradation: Locating the Tragedy; Philip Maggs and John Hoddinott (1999) The Impact of Changes in Common Property Resource Management on Intrahousehold Allocation; Susan M. Capalbo (1986) Temporary Equilibrium Production Models for a Common-Property Renewable-Resource Sector; John Quiggin (1995) Common property in Agricultural Production; Peter J. Parks and Manuel Bonifaz (1994) Nonsustainable Use of Renewable Resources: Mangrove Deforestation and Mariculture in Ecuador. Incentives and Interactions within Groups Managing Resources: Carlisle Ford Runge (1981) Common Property Externalities: Isolation, Assurance, and Resource Depletion in a Traditional Grazing Context; Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau (1997) Coordination Problems in Local-Level Resource Management; Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan (1996) The Evolution of Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use; M. N. Murty (1994) Management of Common Property Resources: Limits to Voluntary Collective Action; Nir Becker and K. William Easter (1998) Conflict and Cooperation in Utilizing a Common Property Resource; Charles F. Mason, Todd Sandler and Richard Cornes (1988) Expectations, the Commons, and Optimal Group Size. Volume II: Case Studies and Empirical Analyses: The Importance of Local Resources and Renewing Community Management: N.S. Jodha (1990) Rural Common Property Resources: Contributions and Crisis; Andrew Ainslie (1999) When 'Community' is not Enough: Managing Common Property Natural Resources in Rural South Africa; Philip Woodhouse (1997) (Part Contents)