Protecting the Commons (ePub)
A Framework for Resource Management in the Americas
(Sprache: Englisch)
Commons -- lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species -- are an increasingly contentious issue...
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Commons -- lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species -- are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs.Protecting the Commons provides an important analytical framework for understanding commons issues and for designing policies to deal with them. The product of a symposium convened by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) to mark the 30th anniversary of Garrett Hardin's seminal essay "e;The Tragedy of the Commons"e; the book brings together leading scholars and researchers on commons issues to offer both conceptual background and analysis of the evolving scientific understanding on commons resources. The book: gives a concise update on commons use and scholarship offers eleven case studies of commons, examined through the lens provided by leading commons theorist Elinor Ostrom provides a review of tools such as Geographic Information Systems that are useful for decision-making examines environmental justice issues relevant to commons .Contributors include Alpina Begossi, William Blomquist, Joanna Burger, Tim Clark, Clark Gibson, Michael Gelobter, Michael Gochfeld, Bonnie McCay, Pamela Matson, Richard Norgaard, Elinor Ostrom, David Policansky, Jeffrey Richey, Jose Sarukhan, and Edella Schlager.Protecting the Commons represents a landmark study of commons issues that offers analysis and background from economic, legal, social, political, geological, and biological perspectives. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned with commons and commons resources, including students and scholars of environmental policy and economics, public health, international affairs, and related fields.
Autoren-Porträt von Joanna Burger
Joanna Burger is Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University.Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Richard B. Norgaard is professor of energy and resources and professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
David Policansky is associate director of the Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology at the National Research Council.
Bernard D. Goldstein is director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a joint program of Rutgers University and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and chair of the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joanna Burger
- 2013, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Joanna Burger, Elinor Ostrom, Richard Norgaard, Bernard D. Goldstein, David Policansky
- Verlag: Island Press
- ISBN-10: 1597262811
- ISBN-13: 9781597262811
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2013
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