Acompañado de: "Property rights in a social and ecological context : case studies and design applications".

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Foreword -- About the contributors -- Introduction: 1. An introduction to property rights and the environment / Susan Hanna and Mohan Munasinghe -- Overview: 2. Property rights and environmental resources / Susan Hanna, Carl Folke, and Karl-Gr̲an Ml̃er -- Governance: 3. Designing complexity to govern complexity / Elinor Ostrom -- 4. Distributed governance in fisheries / Ralph E. Townsend and Samuel G. Pooley -- 5. Efficiencies of user participation in natural resource management / Susan Hanna -- 6. The management of transboundary resources and property rights systems: the case of fisheries / Veijo T. Kaitala and Gordon R. Munro -- Equity and stewardship : 7. Building equity, stewardship, and resilience into market-based property rights systems / Michael D. Young and Bonnie J. McCay -- Traditional knowledge: 8. Analysis of earth summit prescriptions on incorporating traditional knowledge in natural resource management / Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht -- Linking mechanisms: 9. Mechanisms that link property rights to ecological systems / Carl Folke and Fikret Berkes -- Poverty and population: 10. Poverty, population, and the environment / Partha Dasgupta.

This book and its companion volume, " Property Rights in a Social and Ecological Context: Case Studies and Design Applications, " concern the institutional dimensions of environmental sustainability. Humans interact with their environment through systems of property rights that are embedded in social, political, cultural, and economic context. The outcome of that interaction affects both the quantity and quality of environmental resouraces. It is becoming increasingly clear that although national and international economic policies have often ignored the environment, economic development ultimately depends on institutions that can protect and maintain the environment ' s carrying capacity and resilience. The knowledge of how property rights regimes, as particularly important types of institutions, function in relation to humans and their use of the environment is critical to the design and implementation of effective environmental protection. This volume presents the theoretical and conceptual background of five general issues of property rights and the environment: the design of governance systems for sustainability; the relationships among equity, stewardship, and environmental resilience; the use of traditional knowledge in resource management; the mechanisms that link humans to their environments; and the role played by poverty and population.