Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons

ISBN-13: 9781844070954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 184 str.

Graham R. Marshall

Opis

Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet it remains illequipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmental and resource commons, whereby stakeholders work cooperatively in implementing solutions, or to analyse the complex institutional choices arising from its pursuit. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents an alternative approach capable of identifying the conditions under which pursuit of the collaborative vision has a reasonable prospect of promoting voluntary cooperation in management of the commons. The result is a powerful and useful approach to economics for collaborative environmental management of the commons.

Spis treści

Introduction * Part I: The Collaborative Vision, Hopes and Frustrations * Progress, Sustainability and Economics * Part II: Theory and Method for an Economics of Collaborative Environmental Management * Collective Action in the Commons: The View from Mainstream Economics * Developments in Collective Action Theory for Commons Management * An Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management * Part III: Lessons from the Field * Challenges and Strategies for Collaborative Environmental Management: Insights from International Experience * From Antagonism to Trust: Collaborative Salinity Management in Australia's Murray Darling Basin * Part IV: Grounding the Collaborative Vision * Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research * Myth, Enlightenment and Economics *

O autorze

Graham Marshall is Programme Leader, Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Australia