About the Book:” . . . an impressive collection of essays that provide a wide-ranging look at the question of how best to manage our common-pool resources. . . . a thought-provoking read . . . ” The Journal of Environmental EducationThis is a new edition of a pioneering work on the origins, developments, and recent innovations in the debate on managing commonly-owned lands and resources. It includes both new and updated essays which focus on alternate institutional approaches to managing these resources to prevent environmental tragedy.Table of Contents: Foreword: Putting the Commons First Managing Commons and Community: Pacific Northwest People, Salmon, Rivers, and Sea (William D. Ruckelshaus)Classic Tragedy of the Commons The Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin) The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery (H. Scott Gordon) Group Size and Group Behavior (Mancur Olson, Jr.) A New Primer for the Management of Common-Pool Resources and Public Goods (John A. Baden)Developing Theories of the Commons Environmental Resource Management: Public or Private? (Robert L. Bish) The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later (David Feeny, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie L. McCay, James M. Acheson) Reflections on the Commons (Elinor Ostrom)Organizing the Commons From Free Grass to Fences: Transforming the Commons of the American West (Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill) Communitarianism and the Logic of the Commons (John A. Baden) A Community Corporation Approach to Management of Marine Fisheries: With Some Potential Applications to Hawaii (Samuel G. Pooley and Ralph E. Townsend) International Fisheries Management Institutions: Europe and the South Pacific (Douglas S. Noonan)Problematic Conceptions of the Commons: Alternative Perspectives Dealing with Problematic Commons: The Viewshed (Randal O’Toole) Internet Decentralization, Feedback, and Self-Organization (Douglas S. Noonan) Environmental Versus Political Pollution (Dwight R. Lee) The Federal Treasury as a Common Pool Resource: The Predatory Bureaucracy as a Management Tool (John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan) Living on a Lifeboat (Garrett Hardin) Clear Thinking About the Earth (Lynn Scarlett)Index