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People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance

Author: Clark C Gibson; Margaret A McKean; Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Series: Politics, science, and the environment.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores the complex interactions between local communities and their forests. This text focuses on the rules by which communities govern and manage their forest resources. It aims to offer  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Clark C Gibson; Margaret A McKean; Elinor Ostrom
ISBN: 0262072017 9780262072014 0262571374 9780262571371
OCLC Number: 42290091
Description: xxiv, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Explaining deforestation : the role of local institutions / Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom --
Common property : what is it, what is it good for, and what makes it work? / Margaret A. McKean --
Small is beautiful, but is larger better? Forest-management institutions in the Kumaon Himalaya, India / Arun Agrawal --
Successful forest management : the importance of security of tenure and rule enforcement in Ugandan forests / Abwoli Y. Banana and William Gombya-Ssembajjwe --
Optimal foraging, institutions, and forest change : a case from Nepal / Charles M. Schweik --
A lack of institutional demand : why a strong local community in Western Ecuador fails to protect its forest / Clark C. Gibson and C. Dustin Becker --
Indigenous forest management in the Bolivian Amazon : lessons from the Yuracaré people / C. Dustin Becker and Rosario León --
Population and forest dynamics in the hills of Nepal : institutional remedies by rural communities / George Varughese --
Forests, people, and governance : some initial theoretical lessons / Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, and Margaret A. McKean --
Appendix : International forestry resources and institutions research strategy / Elinor Ostrom and Mary Beth Wertime.
Series Title: Politics, science, and the environment.
Responsibility: edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom.

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