Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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Dr. Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries. The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. In contrast to the proposition of the tragedy of the commons argument, common pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways--both successful and unsuccessful--of governing the commons. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved.
Product Info
- Author
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dewey Decimal Number
- 333.2
- EAN
- 9780521405997
- ISBN
- 0521405998
- Label
- Cambridge University Press
- Manufacturer
- Cambridge University Press
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Number Of Pages
- 298
- Product Group
- Book
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_BOOK
- Publication Date
- 1990-11-30
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Studio
- Cambridge University Press
- Title
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
- ASIN
- 0521405998
- Sales Rank
- 30339
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- May 22, 2012, 9:37 pm
