TY - SER
KW - aquatic resources
KW - land use
KW - land tenure
KW - commons
KW - case studies
KW - social choice
KW - common property management
AU - Elinor Ostrom
AB - The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market has been uniformly successful in solving common-pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrum here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore the conditions under which common-pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved.
Dr. Ostrum first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways -- both successful and unsuccessful -- of governing the commons. In contrast to the propositions of the "tragedy of the commons" argument, common-pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forest, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries. (author)
AN - 91-02332
CN - HD1286.O87 1990
CY - Cambridge [England]; New York
DA - 01/1990
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market has been uniformly successful in solving common-pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrum here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore the conditions under which common-pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved.
Dr. Ostrum first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways -- both successful and unsuccessful -- of governing the commons. In contrast to the propositions of the "tragedy of the commons" argument, common-pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forest, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries. (author)
PB - Cambridge University Press
PP - Cambridge [England]; New York
PY - 1990
RN - Local system: LIAS1556180 Local system: (OCoLC)21409003 Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index Acquisitions source: UP-PAT copy: Selected to honor Darla V. Lindberg, on the occasion of receiving tenure-promotion; 2012 Action note: Rebound. 20100401. Grantville, PA 17028. Wert Bookbinding, Inc Action note: Deacidified. 20100504. liquid. Bookkeepers III. Cranberry Township, PA 16066. Preservation Technologies Inc
SN - 0-521-37101-5
EP - 280
ST - Governing the commons
TI - Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1119430541
ER -