Constructing cooperation
Subtitle: the evolution of institutions of comanagement
By: Sara Singleton.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Salmon fisheries -- Northwest, Pacific.; Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Northwest, Pacific.; Fishery co-management -- Northwest, Pacific.
Description: Constructing Cooperation is the study of a regulatory regime in which 20 Pacific Northwest Indian tribes comanage a large, biologically complex, and highly valuable salmon fishery together with state, federal, and international regulatory agencies.

Using insights from cultural anthropology, institutional economics, and political science, Sara Singleton analyzes how these disparate groups both succeed and fail in designing institutions that allow them to utilize their particular areas of knowledge and expertise, and to coordinate their shared and competing objectives in managing this important trans-boundary resource.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social cooperation and the problem of collective action; title: Early institutions of the Pacific Northwest tribes; title: Development of the salmon fishery : mid-nineteenth century to the present; title: Institutions of co-management; title: Intertribal conflict and cooperation; title: Internal governance.