Contents
About the Authors
Preface
1. Human Ecology of the Commons - Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson
I. Conservation and the Commons
2. The Lobster Fiefs Revisited: Economic and Ecological Effects of Territoriality in Maine Lobster Fishing - James M. Acheson
3. Common-Property Resource Management and Cree Indian Fisheries in Subarctic Canada - Fikret Berkes
4. Game Conservation or Efficient Hunting? - Raymond Hames
5. Resource Management in an Amazon Varzea Lake Ecosystem: The Cocamilla Case - Anthony Stocks
6. Conservation and Resource Depletion: The Case of the Boreal Forest Algonquians - Robert A. Brightman
7. Marine Tenure and Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Problems in Interpretation - James G. Carrier
II. Specifying the Commons
8. Embedded Systems and Rooted Models: The Grazing Lands of Botswana and the Commons Debate - Pauline E. Peters
9. The Culture of the Commoners: Historical Observations on Old and New World Fisheries - Bonnie J. McCay
10. The Dynamics of Communal and Hereditary Land Tenure Among the Tigray of Ethiopia - Dan Bauer
11. The Common Swamplands of Southeastern Borneo: Multiple Use, Management, and Conflict - Patricia J. Vondal
12. Institutional Arrangements for Resolving the Commons Dilemma: Some Contending Approaches - Elinor Ostrom
13. The Call to the Commons: Decline and Recommitment in Asturias, Spain - J. W. Fernandez
14. "The River Would Run Red with Blood": Community and Common Property in an Irish Fishing Settlement - Lawrence Taylor
III. The State and the Commons
15. An Economic View of the Tragedy of the Commons - Ralph Townsend and James A. Wilson
16. A Malaysian Tragedy of the Commons - E. N. Anderson, Jr.
17. Intercepting the State: Dramatic Processes in the Assertion of Local Comanagement Rights - Evelyn Pinkerton
18. The Grass Roots and the State: Resource Management in Icelandic Fishing - E. Paul Durrenberger and Gislí Pálsson
Bibliography
Index