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People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance
- Title
- People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance / edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxiv, 274 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Politics, science, and the environment
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Explaining deforestation : the role of local institutions / Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom -- Common property : what is it, what is it good for, and what makes it work? / Margaret A. McKean -- Small is beautiful, but is larger better? Forest-management institutions in the Kumaon Himalaya, India / Arun Agrawal -- Successful forest management : the importance of security of tenure and rule enforcement in Ugandan forests / Abwoli Y. Banana and William Gombya-Ssembajjwe -- Optimal foraging, institutions, and forest change : a case from Nepal / Charles M. Schweik -- A lack of institutional demand : why a strong local community in Western Ecuador fails to protect its forest / Clark C. Gibson and C. Dustin Becker -- Indigenous forest management in the Bolivian Amazon : lessons from the Yuracaré people / C. Dustin Becker and Rosario León -- Population and forest dynamics in the hills of Nepal : institutional remedies by rural communities / George Varughese -- Forests, people, and governance : some initial theoretical lessons / Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, and Margaret A. McKean -- Appendix : International forestry resources and institutions research strategy / Elinor Ostrom and Mary Beth Wertime.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-13996
- ISBN
- 0262072017 (alk. paper)
- 0262571374 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99043446
- OCLC
- 42290091
- Title
- People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance / edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
- Series
- Politics, science, and the environment
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gibson, Clark C., 1961-McKean, Margaret A.Ostrom, Elinor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-13996