Product Description: Libro que rápidamente se ha colocado como un paradigma del pensamiento social, en especial para el campo de la conservación de los recursos naturales. Elinor Ostrom responde con argumentos de fondo a la opinión de los conservacionistas, politólogos y políticos, de que los recursos poseídos y administrados colectivamente están por definición condenados a la sobreexplotación y al deterioro...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies to enforce agreements they make to cooperate with one another...read more

Product Description: Explores ways that the tragedy of the commons can be avoided by people who use common-property resources

Product Description: Integrating recent research in the fields of public administration, public finance, institutional economics, and policy analysis, this book shows how institutional arrangements and the incentives they generate can help or hinder development efforts...read more

Product Description: Many large-scale irrigation projects established in developing countries have failed - despite huge inputs of foreign aid - because the institutions for opening and maintaining the projects proved inadequate. Ostrom counsels planners to look beyond a narrow concern with engineering and to let irrigation consumers involve themselves in the design, operation, and maintenance of water-supply systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume, written by leading political scientists, express discontent with the prevailing basis of political studies. They find that the acceptance of a logical positivist view of what makes a valid theory has led to a concentration on questions of method...read more

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