Property rights and the environment : social and ecological issues /

This book and its companion volume, " Property Rights in a Social and Ecological Context: Case Studies and Design Applications, " concern the institutional dimensions of environmental sustainability. Humans interact with their environment through systems of property rights that are embedde...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hanna, Susan, ed, Munasinghe, Mohan, ed
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1995
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • About the contributors
  • Introduction: 1. An introduction to property rights and the environment / Susan Hanna and Mohan Munasinghe
  • Overview: 2. Property rights and environmental resources / Susan Hanna, Carl Folke, and Karl-Gr̲an Ml̃er
  • Governance: 3. Designing complexity to govern complexity / Elinor Ostrom
  • 4. Distributed governance in fisheries / Ralph E. Townsend and Samuel G. Pooley
  • 5. Efficiencies of user participation in natural resource management / Susan Hanna
  • 6. The management of transboundary resources and property rights systems: the case of fisheries / Veijo T. Kaitala and Gordon R. Munro
  • Equity and stewardship : 7. Building equity, stewardship, and resilience into market-based property rights systems / Michael D. Young and Bonnie J. McCay
  • Traditional knowledge: 8. Analysis of earth summit prescriptions on incorporating traditional knowledge in natural resource management / Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht
  • Linking mechanisms: 9. Mechanisms that link property rights to ecological systems / Carl Folke and Fikret Berkes
  • Poverty and population: 10. Poverty, population, and the environment / Partha Dasgupta.