Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation.Rights to Nature is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that guide and control human use of the environment. Following a brief overview of the relationship between property rights and the natural environment, chapters consider: ecological systems and how they function the effects of culture, values, and social organization on the use of natural resources the design and development of property rights regimes and the costs of their operation cultural factors that affect the design and implementation of property rights systems coordination across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries The book provides a valuable synthesis of information on how property rights develop, why they develop in certain ways, and the ways in which they function. Representing a unique integration of natural and social science, it addresses the full range of ecological, economic, cultural, and political factors that affect natural resource management and use, and provides valuable insight into the role of property rights regimes in establishing societies that are equitable, efficient, and sustainable.
About the Contributors ix Foreword xiii Kenneth J. Arrow Property Rights and the Natural Environment 1(12) Susan Hanna Carl Folke Karl-Goran Maler PART I The Interface Between Social and Ecological Systems The Structure and Function of Ecological Systems in Relation to Property-Rights Regimes 13(22) Robert Costanza Carl Folke Human Use of the Natural Environment: An Overview of Social and Economic Dimensions 35(22) Susan Hanna Svein Jentoft Dynamics of (Dis)harmony in Ecological and Social Systems 57(30) C.S. Holling Steven Sanderson Social Systems, Ecological Systems, and Property Rights 87(24) Fikret Berkes PART II The Structure and Formation of Property Rights Common and Private Concerns 111(16) Bonnie J. McCay The Formation of Property Rights 127(30) Elinor Ostrom Edella Schlager The Economics of Control and the Cost of Property Rights 157(22) Thrainn Eggertsson PART III Culture, Economic Development, and Property Rights Culture and Property Rights 179(26) Jean Ensminger Property Rights and Development 205(18) Narpat S. Jodha PART IV Property Rights at Different Scales Common-Property Regimes as a Solution to Problems of Scale and Linkage 223(22) Margaret A. McKean Rights, Rules, and Resources in International Society 245(20) Oran R. Young Building Property Rights for Transboundary Resources 265(20) Scott Barrett Index 285
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