Download or read book Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management written by Graham R. Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Includes lessons from Africa, Central America, North America and Asia, and detailed coverage of collaborative management in irrigated environments of Australia's Murray Darling Basin * Essential reading for economists, policy-makers, researchers, leaders, practitioners and students working in environmental and natural resource management Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet remains poorly equipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmental and resource commons. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents a unique operational approach to how collaborative environmental governance might be brought to fruition in a variety of contexts, whether in industrialized or developing countries. The result is a powerful, useful and badly needed approach to economics for collaborative environmental management of the commons.