Halting degradation of natural resources [electronic resource] : is there a role for rural communities? / Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau ; foreword by Mancur Olson.

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Published: New York, NY : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ; 1996.
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Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • Natural resources and economic growth: towards a definition of sustainability
  • The tragedy of the commons
  • The property rights school solution: the privatization programme
  • The unregulated common property: the prisoner's dilemma revisited
  • Co-ordination and leadership in the unregulated common property: some lessons from game theory
  • Moral norms and co-operation
  • The possibility of co-operation: lessons from experimental social psychology
  • The regulated common property
  • Some concluding reflections on the privatization of common property resources
  • Were people traditionally conservationists?
  • Recent changes affecting collective action at village level
  • Conditions for successful collective action: insights from field experiences
  • Co-management as a new approach to regulation of common property resources.