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BL
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1001176
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b755546
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| Main Entry
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Baland, Jean-Marie.
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Halting degradation of natural resources : : is there a role for rural communities? /\ Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau ; foreword by Mancur Olson.
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| Publication Statement
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Rome :: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ;Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1996.
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xv, 423 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0198289219
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: 0198290616
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: 9251037280
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: 9780198289210
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: 9780198290612
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: 9789251037287
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-407) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Towards a Definition of Sustainability -- 2. The Tragedy of the Commons -- 3. The Property Rights School Solution: The Privatization Programme -- 4. The Unregulated Common Property: The Prisoner's Dilemma Revisited -- 5. Co-ordination and Leadership in the Unregulated Common Property: Some Lessons from Game Theory -- 6. Moral Norms and Co-operation -- 7. The Possibility of Co-operation: Lessons from Experimental Social Psychology -- 8. The Regulated Common Property -- 9. Some Concluding Reflections on the Privatization of Common Property Resources -- 10. Were People Traditionally Conservationists? -- 11. Recent Changes Affecting Collective Action at Village Level -- 12. Conditions for Successful Collective Action: Insights from Field Experiences -- 13. Co-Management as a New Approach to Regulation of Common Property Resources.
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This wide-ranging book, based on a report to the Food and Agriculture Organization in 1993, is an attempt to bridge the gap between the enormous amount of empirical literature documenting efforts at managing local-level resources and the quickly growing body of theoretical knowledge dealing with natural resource management. By building a unifying framework, the authors aim better to define the conditions of success or failure of various forms of resource management at the village level. Contrary to a common view, according to which mismanagement of such resources is to be ascribed to direct users falling prey to 'The Tragedy of the Commons', they convincingly argue that there are other important potential explanations, such as lack of awareness about ecological effects of human activities, poverty and heavy discounting of future income streams, uncertainty over future property rights and prices of natural products, and availability of more attractive income opportunities.
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Stress is then laid on the global context within which user groups operate, including the nature and the forms of state intervention and the effects of increasing market integration. To date, this context has generally been uncongenial to community-based resource management; therefore, the authors recommend that, whenever a co-management approach is feasible, the concrete institutional form adopted is tailored to the specific features of local cultures.
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Commons.
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Natural resources-- Management.
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Natural resources, Communal-- Management.
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Analyse économique.
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Common property.
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Commons.
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Communaux-- Gestion.
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Gestion des ressources naturelles.
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Gestion des ressources.
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Kommunalpolitik
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Milieu rural.
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Natural resources-- Management.
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Natural resources, Communal-- Management.
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Natürliche Ressourcen
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Propriété publique.
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Ressourcenpolitik
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Ressources naturelles.
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Lokaal beleid.
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Natuurlijke hulpbronnen.
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| Dewey Classification
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333.7/2
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| LC Classification
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HC59.15.B35 1996
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83.65bcl
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AR 26100rvk
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QT 200rvk
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| Added Entry
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Platteau, J. P., (Jean-Philippe),1947-
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