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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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McKean, Margaret A. |
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Conference:
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International Symposium on Landscape Futures |
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Location:
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Armidale, New South Wales, Australia |
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Conf. Date:
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September 22-25, 1999 |
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Date:
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1999 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5352
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Sector:
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Theory |
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Subject(s):
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common pool resources--theory
property rights--policy
property rights--theory
resource management--policy
land tenure and use--policy
ownership--policy
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Abstract:
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"It is conventional to think of common property regimes that are devised by communities who use certain natural resources in common as very traditional social institutions dependent on considerable face-to-fact contact for enforcement, and therefore as unlikely to work in industrialized or commercialized settings. However, I would like us to examine common property regimes as complex systems of reorganizing the strands in the classic bundle of property rights, and to consider the possibility that this re-allocation of strands — reallocation of particular rights, of streams of benefits, of responsibilities for oversight — is exactly what we are finding we must do wherever we face environmental externalities. It does not matter whether the environmental externalities occur in hunter-gatherer societies or in self-contained agricultural settlements or in dense industrial urban settings. In comparing some of the traditional long-lasting and successful common property regimes to new attempts at environmental regulation, we may be able to identify crucial weaknesses or imagine new remedies in our contemporary efforts."
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