Managing Tragedies: Understanding Conflict over Common Pool Resources

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5652, 2003, Pages 1915-1916

  Adams, William M ^a   Brockington, Dan ^b   Dyson, Jane ^a   Vira, Bhaskar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC POLICY;

COMMON POOL RESOURCES;

NATURAL RESOURCES;

RAIN;

COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; FORESTRY; LANDSCAPE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0346125400     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087771     Document Type: Review

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20. This paper draws on research funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Natural Resources Systems Programme (project R7973). We thank K. Chopra, M. Murphree, and I. Shivji, who shared this project. The views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID.