This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the clas

In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the o