Looks at institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. It also analyzes specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, and other environmental issues.

Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of disaster, this chronicle describes scott crow's headlong rush into the political storm surrounding the catastrophic failure of the levee in New Orleans in 2005 and the subsequent failure of state and local government agencies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It recounts crow's efforts with others in the community to found Common Ground Collective, a grassroots relief organization that built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution, and created community gardens when local government...