Preface; 1. Reflections on the commons; 2. An institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations; 3. Analyzing long-enduring, self-organized and self-governed CPRs; 4. Analyzing institutional change; 5. Analyzing institutional failures and fragilities; 6. A framework for analysis of self-organizing and self-governing CPRs; Notes; References; Index.
Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.
'In this ambitious, provocative, and very useful book, Ostrom
combines a lucid theoretical framework with a series of diverse and
richly detailed case studies … she tightly reviews and critiques
extant models of cooperation and collective action and argues
powerfully that communities of actors are sometimes able to
maintain a common resource for long periods of time without outside
intervention.' Contemporary Sociology
'Ostrom's book is an important contribution to the problems of
common property resources, that is, the lack of well-defined
property rights over a certain resource. Elinor Ostrom convincingly
shows that there are many different viable mixtures between public
and private, in particular self-organization and self-governance by
the users of the common property resource. The book makes
fascinating reading, particularly as it is well written.' Bruno S.
Frey, Kyklos
'Students of common property resource regimes will find much of
great interest in the volume.' Barry C. Field, Land Economics
'A classic by one of the best-known thinkers on communities and
commons.' Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures
'… timely, well-written, and a useful addition to our understanding
of the challenges of natural resource management … useful for
undergraduate and graduate students as well as field practitioners
interested in the development of scientifically based research. It
provides a firm grounding in the theoretical underpinnings that
should guide empirical investigations … Ostrom offers a unique
source of information on the realities of resource management
institutions coupled with the challenge for continued examination
of institutions on order to develop better ways to address the CPR
challenge.' Gordon L. Brady, Southern Economic Journal
'This is the most influential book in the last decade on thinking
about the commons. For those involved with small communities …
located in one nation, whose lives depend on a common pool of
renewable resources … Governing the Commons has been the
intellectual field guide.' Whole Earth
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