Common property resources, poverty and environmental degradation

By Soma Saha

INTRODUCTION The concept of Property rights has an important implication to the use of natural resources, rural poverty, degradation, and conservations. Bromley (1990) describes the property, not as a natural resource but as a benefit stream that arises from that resource. With property, comes the right to use or access, which can be defined as one's claim to a benefit stream. Based on the different access regimes and the rights and duties governing them, the different resource regimes are i) State property ii) Private property iii) Common property, and iv) Open access resource (Bromley and Cochrane, 1994). In the state property regime, the state has full ownership and control over the property, while in the private property regime it is privately used and controlled by individuals. In the case of common property, individuals within a group have access, rights, and duties, and all others are excluded from its use and decision-making (Ciriacy-Wantrup and Bishop, 1975).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6077341134
• ISBN13: 9786077341130
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Infotech
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"