Managing the Commons

Abstract

Foreword: Putting the Commons First Managing Commons and Community: Pacific Northwest People, Salmon, Rivers, and Sea (William D. Ruckelshaus) Classic Tragedy of the Commons The Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin) The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery (H. Scott Gordon) Group Size and Group Behavior (Mancur Olson, Jr.) A New Primer for the Management of Common-Pool Resources and Public Goods (John A. Baden) Developing Theories of the Commons Environmental Resource Management: Public or Private? (Robert L. Bish) The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later (David Feeny, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie L. McCay, James M. Acheson) Reflections on the Commons (Elinor Ostrom) Organizing the Commons From Free Grass to Fences: Transforming the Commons of the American West (Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill) Communitarianism and the Logic of the Commons (John A. Baden) A Community Corporation Approach to Management of Marine Fisheries: With Some Potential Applications to Hawaii (Samuel G. Pooley and Ralph E. Townsend) International Fisheries Management Institutions: Europe and the South Pacific (Douglas S. Noonan) Problematic Conceptions of the Commons: Alternative Perspectives Dealing with Problematic Commons: The Viewshed (Randal O'Toole) Internet Decentralization, Feedback, and Self-Organization (Douglas S. Noonan) Environmental Versus Political Pollution (Dwight R. Lee) The Federal Treasury as a Common Pool Resource: The Predatory Bureaucracy as a Management Tool (John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan) Living on a Lifeboat (Garrett Hardin) Clear Thinking About the Earth (Lynn Scarlett) Index