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Title Promise, trust, and evolution : managing the commons of South Asia / edited by Rucha Ghate, Narpat S. Jodha, and Pranab Mukhopadhyay
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Common property resources: economic analytics / Partha Dasgupta -- Some places again; a 'restricted' revisit to dry regions of India / Narpat S. Jodha -- Decentralization, devolution, and collective action -- a review of international experience / Priya Shyamsundar -- Does afforestation ensure sustainability? A study of the haors of Bangladesh / A.K. Enamul Haque -- A tale of three villages: practised forestry in India / Rucha Ghate -- The Stake-Net Fishery Association of Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka: why has it survived over 250 years and will it survive another 100 years? / Asha Gunawardena, Paul Steele -- Transaction costs and institutional innovation: sustainability of tank aquaculture in Sri Lanka / Athula Senaratne, Kalpa Karunanayake -- Irrigation management -- Does bottom up work better than top down in Sri Lanka? / Gamini Herath -- Heterogeneity, commons, and privatization: agrarian institutional change in Goa / Pranab Mukhopadhyay -- Is cooperation costly with diverse economic agents? / Bhim Adhikari -- Who pays for conservation: evidence from forestry in Nepal / Arun Khatri-Chhetri -- Community tanks vs private wells: coping strategics and sustainability issues in South India / R. Balasubramanian -- Tradition and sovereignty: conflicts over the forests of Dir-Kohistan / Shaheen Rafi Khan -- Is the state passé? Competing domains in forestry in Orissa / Arabinda Mishra -- Efficiency and low costs under non-limiting supply conditions in Bhutan / Edward L. Webb, Lam Dorji -- So far so good: next steps in community forestry / Keshav Raj Kanel
Summary This volume examines the management of Common Property Resources, like water, forestry, and land, and is intended to provide an account of the transformation of the commons in a rapidly changing South Asia
Analysis eigendomsrechten
property rights
natuurlijke hulpbronnen
natural resources
toegangsrecht
right of access
gemeenschappelijke weidegronden
common lands
wettelijke rechten
legal rights
gemeenschappelijk bezit
common property resources
gezamenlijk eigendom
coownership
economische hulpbronnen
economic resources
bezit
property
gemeenschappen
communities
grondbeheer
land management
south asia
bhutan
nepal
india
pakistan
sri lanka
waterrechten
water rights
Sociology and Anthropology of Law
Rechtssociologie- en antropologie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Natural resources, Communal -- South Asia
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Economic history
Natural resources, Communal
Natuurlijke hulpbronnen.
Beheer.
Bosbouw.
SUBJECT South Asia -- Economic conditions
Subject South Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Ghate, Rucha S. (Rucha Suresh), 1961-
Jodha, N. S.
Mukhopādhyāẏa, Praṇaba.
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