Property rights and environmental problems Auteur Larson B.A. (ed.) Date 2003 Source IUCN (ID: MON-073138) Éditeur | Lieu de publication Ashgate Publishing | Aldershot, UK ISBN 0 7546 2245 2 Pages 1012 p. Type du document Divers Langue Anglais Champ d'application International Sujet Environnement gén. Mot clé Gestion communautaire Droits de propriété Propriété commune Régime foncier Résumé Selected contents: Volume I: Institutions and property: (1) The nature and function of property as a social institution (2) The new institutional economics: Taking stock, looking ahead Property regimes and environmental resources: (3) ' Common property ' as a concept in natural resource policy The importance and performance of group management regimes: (4) The management of common property resources: Collective action as an alternative to privatization or state regulation Property regimes and private incentives: (5) Temporary equilibrium production models for a common-property renewable-resource sector (6) Common property in agricultural production Incentives and interactions within groups managing resources: (7) Common property externalities: Isolation, assurance and resource depletion in a traditional grazing context Volume II: The importance of local resources and renewing community management: (8) Rural common property resources: Contributions and crisis Livestock and land: (9) The common property problem and pastoralist economic behaviour Using property rights to manage weather variability: (10) Common property as an institutional response to environmental variability Land rights, agriculture and environmental degradation: (11) Implications of the rural land tenure system for the environmental debate: Three scenarios Property rights and agricultural productivity: (12) Land tenure and property rights: Theory and implications for development policy Forests, fuelwood and the poor: (13) Fuelwood, subsistence foraging, and the decline of common property