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

Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2001.

Format/Description:

Book
xii, 360 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Natural resources, Communal -- America -- Management.

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.

Contributor:

Burger, Joanna.

ISBN:

1559637374 (cloth)
1559637382 (pbk.)

OCLC:

44720739

Online:

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