Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2022
457 pages
978-0-8165-4803-3 (ISBN)
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This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "e,The Tragedy of the Commons"e, that common property is doomed to overexploitation in any society. This book represents the first cross-cultural test of Hardin's argument and argues that, while tragedies of the commons do occur under some circumstances, local institutions have proven resilient and responsive to the problems of communal resource use.
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Bonnie J. McCay | James M. Acheson
The Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
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07/1990
University of Arizona Press
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The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Preface
- 1. Human Ecology of the Commons - Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson
- I. Conservation and the Commons
- 2. The Lobster Fiefs Revisited: Economic and Ecological Effects of Territoriality in Maine Lobster Fishing - James M. Acheson
- 3. Common-Property Resource Management and Cree Indian Fisheries in Subarctic Canada - Fikret Berkes
- 4. Game Conservation or Efficient Hunting? - Raymond Hames
- 5. Resource Management in an Amazon Varzea Lake Ecosystem: The Cocamilla Case - Anthony Stocks
- 6. Conservation and Resource Depletion: The Case of the Boreal Forest Algonquians - Robert A. Brightman
- 7. Marine Tenure and Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Problems in Interpretation - James G. Carrier
- II. Specifying the Commons
- 8. Embedded Systems and Rooted Models: The Grazing Lands of Botswana and the Commons Debate - Pauline E. Peters
- 9. The Culture of the Commoners: Historical Observations on Old and New World Fisheries - Bonnie J. McCay
- 10. The Dynamics of Communal and Hereditary Land Tenure Among the Tigray of Ethiopia - Dan Bauer
- 11. The Common Swamplands of Southeastern Borneo: Multiple Use, Management, and Conflict - Patricia J. Vondal
- 12. Institutional Arrangements for Resolving the Commons Dilemma: Some Contending Approaches - Elinor Ostrom
- 13. The Call to the Commons: Decline and Recommitment in Asturias, Spain - J. W. Fernandez
- 14. "The River Would Run Red with Blood": Community and Common Property in an Irish Fishing Settlement - Lawrence Taylor
- III. The State and the Commons
- 15. An Economic View of the Tragedy of the Commons - Ralph Townsend and James A. Wilson
- 16. A Malaysian Tragedy of the Commons - E. N. Anderson, Jr.
- 17. Intercepting the State: Dramatic Processes in the Assertion of Local Comanagement Rights - Evelyn Pinkerton
- 18. The Grass Roots and the State: Resource Management in Icelandic Fishing - E. Paul Durrenberger and Gislí Pálsson
- Bibliography
- Index
