Protecting the Commons: A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas

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Joanna Burger, Elinor Ostrom, Richard Norgaard, David Policansky, Bernard D. Goldstein
Island Press, 31. 10. 2013 - Počet stran: 328

Commons—lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species—are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs.

Protecting the Commons provides an important analytical framework for understanding commons issues and for designing policies to deal with them. The product of a symposium convened by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) to mark the 30th anniversary of Garrett Hardin's seminal essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” the book brings together leading scholars and researchers on commons issues to offer both conceptual background and analysis of the evolving scientific understanding on commons resources. The book:

  • gives a concise update on commons use and scholarship
  • offers eleven case studies of commons, examined through the lens provided by leading commons theorist Elinor Ostrom
  • provides a review of tools such as Geographic Information Systems that are useful for decision-making
  • examines environmental justice issues relevant to commons

Contributors include Alpina Begossi, William Blomquist, Joanna Burger, Tim Clark, Clark Gibson, Michael Gelobter, Michael Gochfeld, Bonnie McCay, Pamela Matson, Richard Norgaard, Elinor Ostrom, David Policansky, Jeffrey Richey, Jose Sarukhan, and Edella Schlager.

Protecting the Commons represents a landmark study of commons issues that offers analysis and background from economic, legal, social, political, geological, and biological perspectives. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned with commons and commons resources, including students and scholars of environmental policy and economics, public health, international affairs, and related fields.

O autorovi (2013)

Dr. Joanna Burger is Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University, where she has taught, conducted research and advised graduate students for over 30 years. Her major research interests are ecological and environmental studies that are informed, directed, and in some cases, involve collaborations with stakeholders to solve contentious environmental problems. Her research areas include 1) ecotoxicology and ecological risk, 2) biomonitoring, 3) developmental effects of heavy metals on birds and other vertebrates, 4) fishing, fish consumption and risk, 5) stakeholder perceptions and attitudes about environmental issues, and 6) social behavior of vertebrates. For the past 13 years she has been the Director of the Ecological Health Center for CRESP (Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation), a Department of Energy University Consortium that has addressed human health, environmental health, remediation/restoration, monitoring and surveillance, and stewardship issues for the Department of Energy. She has served on many national and international committees, including the NAS/NRC Board on Biology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and several committees, SCOPE (the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), and advisory committees for NOAA, EPA,DOE, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. She is a Fellow in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and in the American Ornithologist’s Union, a member of the Committee of 100 for the International Ornithological Congress, and has served as President and several other offices for scientific societies. She has edited or written 18 books, and published over 300 peer-reviewed papers.

Bibliografické údaje

NázevProtecting the Commons: A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas
RedaktořiJoanna Burger, Elinor Ostrom, Richard Norgaard, David Policansky, Bernard D. Goldstein
VydavatelIsland Press, 2013
ISBN1597262811, 9781597262811
DélkaPočet stran: 328
  
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