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The environmental optimism of Elinor Ostrom by Jordan K. Lofthouse; Peter J. Hill; Shawn Regan; Shane Day; Pierre Desrochers; Joanna Szurmak; Eric C. Edwards; Randy T Simmons (editor); Camille H. Wardle (editor); Megan E. Jenkins (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Elinor Ostrom was the first woman awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Ostrom studied the management of shared environmental resources. Her work focused on how human beings come together to solve social dilemmas such as how a resource held in common should be managed. This edited volume builds on Ostrom's research with six chapters by renowned environmental scholars. Each chapter explores a particular issue in environmental policy by carefully analyzing how institutions impact environmental outcomes and considering what might be done to improve those outcomes. The volume begins with an examination of resource governance in the American West and how institutions developed to govern a complex and demanding landscape. It then explores the largely successful multi-stakeholder approach to the management of the greater sage grouse in the western U.S. The third chapter explores the role of American and Canadian indigenous groups in governing Pacific salmon fisheries. Chapter four examines Ostrom's response to Garrett Hardin's classic "Tragedy of the Commons," which claims that unchecked human population growth is destined for tragedy. The fifth chapter bridges the work o
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- Author
- Jordan K. Lofthouse; Peter J. Hill; Shawn Regan; Shane Day; Pierre Desrochers; Joanna Szurmak; Eric C. Edwards; Randy T Simmons (editor); Camille H. Wardle (editor); Megan E. Jenkins (editor)
- Publisher
- Center for Growth & Opportunity at Utah State University, The
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781734856101
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences