Introduction

The Drama of the Commons

PART I: RESOURCE USERS, RESOURCE SYSTEMS, AND BEHAVIOR IN THE DRAMA OF THE COMMONS

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability

Unequal Irrigators: Heterogeneity and Commons Management in Large-Scale Multivariate Research

Factors Influencing Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas: A Review of Experimental Psychological Research

Appropriating the Commons: A Theoretical Explanation

PART II: PRIVATIZATION AND ITS LIMITATIONS

The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned?

Common Property, Regulatory Property, and Environmental Protection: Comparing Community-Based Management to Tradable Environmental Allowances

PART III: CROSS-SCALE LINKAGES AND DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS

Institutional Interplay: The Environmental Consequences of Cross-Scale Interactions

Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages: Perspectives from the Bottom Up

PART IV: EMERGING ISSUES

Scientific Uncertainty, Complex Systems, and the Design of Common-Pool Institutions

Emergence of Institutions for the Commons: Contexts, Situations, and Events

An Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management

CONCLUSION

Knowledge and Questions After 15 Years of Research

About the Contributors

Index