Rights to nature : ecological, economic, cultural, and political principles of institutions for the environment / edited by Susan Hanna, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler

Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1996]
Copyright Date: ©1996
Physical Description: xv, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Hanna, Susan, Folke, Carl, Mäler, Karl-Göran, and Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics

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Contents

Property rights and the natural environment / Susan Hanna, Carl Folke, and Karl-Göran Mäler -- The structure and function of ecological systems in relation to property-rights regimes / Robert Costanza and Carl Folke -- Human use of the natural environment : an overview of social and economic dimensions / Susan Hanna and Svein Jentoft -- Dynamics of (dis)harmony in ecological and social systems / C.S. Holling and Steven Sanderson -- Social systems, ecological systems, and property rights / Fikret Berkes -- Common and private concerns / Bonnie J. McCay -- The formation of property rights / Elinor Ostrom and Edella Schlager -- The economics of control and the cost of property rights / Thráinn Eggertsson -- Culture and property rights / Jean Ensminger -- Property rights and development / Narpat S. Jodha -- Common-property regimes as a solution to problems of scale and linkage / Margaret A. McKean -- Rights, rules, and resources in international society / Oran R. Young -- Building property rights for transboundary resources / Scott Barrett.

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ISBN

1559634901 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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"Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden."

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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