Common property resources: Ecology and community-based sustainable development

Includes the following papers presented at the Conference on Conservation and Development: Implementing the World Conservation Strategy, held June 1986, Ottawa and the Fourth International Congress of Ecology, held Aug 1986, Syracuse, NY: Institutional arrangements for management of rural resources: common-property regimes; Natural resources: access, rights-to-use and management; The evolution of appropriate resource-management systems; Cooperation from the perspective of human ecology; Graphs and gaffs: A cautionary tale in the common-property resources debate; Reforming the use of natural resources; Multi-jurisdictional resources: testing a typology for problem structuring; Meeting environmental concerns caused by common-property mismanagement in economic development projects; Solving the common-property dilemma: Village fisheries rights in Japanese coastal waters; The evolution of Mexico's spiny lobster fishery; Where have all the exploiters gone? Co-management of the Maine lobster industry; Water as common property: The case of irrigation water rights in the Philippines; On the diversification of common-property resource use by Indian society; Changes taking place in common-property resource management in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali; Traditional resource management in the Melanesian South Pacific: A development dilemma.