Title: Economics for collaborative environmental management : renegotiating the commons /
Authors: Marshall, Graham R.
Publisher: Earthscan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental economics; Natural resources Management
Abstract: "Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet remains poorly equipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmental and resource commons. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents a unique operational approach to how collaborative environmental governance might be brought to fruition in a variety of contexts, whether in industrialized or developing countries. The result is a powerful, useful and badly needed approach to economics for collaborative environmental management of the commons. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Contents: Part I. The collaborative vision: hopes and frustrations -- 1. Progress, sustainability and economics -- Modernism and the progressive vision -- The progressive vision and economics -- A vision under siege -- Economics and sustainable development -- Bringing economics on board -- Part II. Theory and method for an economics of collaborative environmental management -- 2. Collective action in the commons: the view from mainstream economics -- Neoclassical economics of the commons -- Group size and voluntary collective action -- Contributions from game theory -- The message for public consumption -- 3. Developments in collective action theory for commons management -- Commons management as an assurance problem -- The problem of establishing trust -- The role of formal organization -- The challenge of collaboration -- 4. An economics for collaborative environmental management -- The comparative institutions approach to economic policy analysis -- The political economy as a mechanistic system -- The political economy as a complex adaptive system -- Complexity and adaptive management: A role for economics? -- A comparative institutions framework for adaptive environmental management -- Barriers to adoption.