Managing the Commons, Second Edition

Book Overview

" . . . an impressive collection of essays that provide a wide-ranging look at the question of how best to manage our common-pool resources. . . . a thought-provoking read . . . " --The Journal of Environmental Education

This is a new edition of a pioneering work on the origins, developments, and recent innovations in the debate on managing commonly-owned lands and resources. It includes both new and updated essays which focus on alternate institutional approaches to managing these resources to prevent environmental tragedy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253211530
• ISBN13: 9780253211538
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

It's not human to be altruistic

This collection of essays explores how individuals view commonly-owned resources. The clear conclusion is that people are biologically selfish: each person sees his/her own interests as more important than the group's interests. Altruism doesn't work as a policy. This flies in the face of common wisdom. I wish this book could be made standard reading for all high-school students. It explains the population's apparently self-defeating habit of destroying their own habitat.

Good Stuff

Very informing information...Innovative, intuitive, interesting. -B. Baggins