Protecting the commons : a framework for resource management in the Americas / edited by Joanna Burger ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burger, Joanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources, Communal--America--Management.

Natural resources, Communal.

Management.

America.

Physical Description:

xii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2001]

Summary:

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 Commonsprovides 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 Commonsrepresents 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.

Contents:

Reforming the commons / Elinor Ostrom

When the commons becomes less tragic: land tenure, social organization, and fair trade in Mexico / José Sarukhán, Jorge Larson

Forest resources: institutions for local governance in Guatemala / Clark C. Gibson

Wildlife resources: the elk of Jackson Hole, Wyoming / Tim W. Clark

Cooperative and territorial resources: Brazilian artisanal fisheries / Alpina Begossi

Water resources: the southwestern United States / Edella Schlager, William Blomquist

Recreational and commercial fisheries / David Policansky

Community-based and cooperative fisheries: solutions to fishermen's problems / Bonnie J. McCay

Multiuse coastal commons: personal watercraft, conflicts, and resolutions / Joanna Burger

The atmospheric commons / John Harrison, Pamela Matson

Arctic contaminants and human health / John P. Middaugh

Medical care as a commons / Michael Gochfeld, Joanna Burger, Bernard D. Goldstein

Spatial techniques for understanding commons issues / Jeffrey E. Richey

Integrating scale and social justice in the commons / Michel Gelobter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1559637374

1559637382

OCLC:

44720739