Integrated coastal and marine management (ICM) holds considerable promise for
addressing gaps in conventional sector-based approaches to the management of coastal …

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-
based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However …

The relationship between private property and common property has engaged both legal
and economic scholars in a long series of controversies over the meaning, the sequence of …

Commons projects, such as community-based natural resource management, have
widespread appeal, which has enabled them to shrug off a mixed performance in practice …

The problem of overuse of open-access resources was clearly articulated by Scott Gordon
(1954) and Harold Demsetz (1967). Garrett Hardin (1968) speculated about the same …

In recent years, the adverse effects of growing water scarcity on the lives and livelihoods of
poor people have become a major policy concern in India. This paper reviews the …

Summary Community Forest Management (CFM)—ranging from community-based to co-
management regimes—has become an influential approach in the management of forests …

Este libro refleja una larga experiencia de investigación, que abarca una amplia gama de
desafíos contemporáneos como son el manejo de las pesquerías oceánicas, la protección …

Institutions, the rules of the game that shape repeated human interactions, clearly play a
critical role in helping groups avoid the inefficient use of shared resources such as fisheries …

A variety of disciplines examine human-environment interactions, identifying factors that
affect environmental outcomes important for human well-being. A central challenge for these …