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Institutional Dynamics and Economics:
The way that humans organize both resource access and resource use is vital to the management of natural resources. Within different contexts the rules of the institutional arrangements, such as the rules of common and private property rights, become levers by which human behaviors can be modified and steered towards the goals of sustainable natural resource management.
Featuring contributions from leading thinkers in the field, this groundbreaking volume examines institutional dynamics from the perspective of natural resource management. The first part discusses institutional diversity and contextual change. The second part analyzes institutional misfit with a strong focus on the long-term impacts of colonial structures in the Asian-Pacific region. Part Three looks at experiences with institutional dynamics in order to ease the tension of such misfits and the fourth part looks at future research needs in the field.
Ultimately, through careful argument and by deploying original research, the authors make the case that institutional arrangements cannot be perceived as a set of parameters that can be optimized and locked in for the most efficient functioning of a system. Nor can institutions be evaluated outside the context in which they were developed.
Contributing authors: Elinor Ostrom, Katrina Brown, Alex Amankwah, Michael Jeffery, Spike Boydell, Tyron Venn, Donna Craig, Rolfs Gerritsen, Anna Straton, David Brunckhorst, Graham Marshall, Ken Lyons, Kevin Davies, Ed Cottrell, Alexander Smajgl, Melissa Nursey-Bray, Karen Vela, Alexander Herr, John Rolfe, Garrick Small and Silva Larson.
Published with CSIRO:
Alex Smajgl has worked for a consultancy specialized in Energy Economics, developed different socio-economic tools for Climate Change negotiations and advised different German Departments and the European Commission.
Silva Larson is a Research Officer with the CSIRO.
Contents:
List of Figures and Tables; Preface; PART I THE CONTEXT: 1) Institutional Dynamics and Natural Resource Management—Alex Smajgl and Silva Larson; PART II INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY AND CONTEXTUAL CHANGE: 2) Multiple Institutions for Multiple Outcomes—Elinor Ostrom; 3) The Challenge of Maintaining the Salience of Common Property Rights with Increasing Cultural and Socio-Economic Heterogeneity—Katrina Myrvang Brown; PART III INSTITUTIONAL MISFIT: 4) Traditional and Customary Land Tenure and Appurtenant Rights: Reflections on Critical Factors of an Ecologically Sustainable Australian Outback—Alex Amankwah; 5) Substantive and Procedural Dimensions of Old and New Forms of Property: IPRs, the CBD and the Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge—Michael Jeffrey; 6) Myth, Embeddedness and Tradition: Property Rights Perceptions from the Pacific—Spike Boydell; 7) Indigenous Property Right to Water: Environmental Flows, Cultural Values and Tradeable Property Rights—Donna Craig; 8) Commercial Forestry: An Economic Development Opportunity Consistent with the Property Rights of Wik People to Natural Resources—Tyron J. Venn; 9) Coping with a Tragedy of the Australian Aboriginal Common—Rolf Gerritsen and Anna Straton; PART IV: EXPERIENCES IN DEALING WITH INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS: 10) Designing Robust Common Property Regimes for Collaboration Towards Rural Sustainability—David J. Brunckhorst and Graham R. Marshall; 11) The Need to Consider the Administration of Property Rights and Restrictions Before Creating Them—Ken Lyons, Kevin Davies and Ed Cottrell; 12) Building Institutional Incentives in Dying Communities—Alex Smajgl, Melissa Nursey-Bray, Karen Vella and Alexander Herr; 13) The Potential for Market Mechanisms to Achieve Vegetation Protection in the Desert Uplands—John Rolfe; 14) A Metaphysical Grounding for Ecologically Sustainable Property Rights—Garrick Small; Contributors; Index.
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Edited by Alex Smajgl , Silva Larson
August 2007
278 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", figures & tables.
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