Local Commons and Global Interdependence

Book Overview

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. In some small-scale settings, participants may be just as helpless in calling on distant public officials to monitor and enforce their agreements. Scholars have independently discovered self-organizing regimes which rely on implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and procedures rather than the command and control of a central authority.

The contributors discuss the possibilities and

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803979630
• ISBN13: 9780803979635
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"