Drama of the Commons

Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Elinor Ostrom, Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Paul C. Stern, Susan Stonich, and Elke U. Weber, Editors, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 1 The Drama of the Commons; 3 Part I: Resource Users, Resource Systems, and Behavior in the Drama of the Commons; 4 2 Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability; 5 3 Unequal Irrigators: Heterogeneity and Commons Management in Large-Scale; 6 4 Factors Influencing Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas: A Review of Experimental Psychological Research; 7 5 Appropriating the Commons: A Theoretical Explanation; 8 Part II: Privatization and Its Limitations; 9 6 The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned?; 10 7 Common Property, Regulatory Property, and Environmental Protection: Comparing Community-Based Management to Tradable Environmental Allowances; 11 Part III: Cross-Scale Linkages and Dynamic Interactions; 12 8 Institutional Interplay: The Environmental Consequences of Cross-Scale Interactions; 13 9 Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages: Perspectives from the Bottom Up; 14 Part IV: Emerging Issues; 15 10 Scientific Uncertainty, Complex Systems, and the Design of Common-Pool Institutions; 16 11 Emergence of Institutions for the Commons: Contexts, Situations, and Events; 17 12 An Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management; 18 13 Knowledge and Questions After 15 Years of Research; 19 About the Contributors; 20 Index