This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Fifty years ago, conventional thinking among economists and environmentalists was that depletion of natural resources could only be prevented through the free m

The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacit

Argues that the logic of common pool resources is the most appropriate and productive way to understand international environmental conflict, and offers importa