Using private rights to manage natural resources: Is stewardship linked to ownership?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gilmour, Patrick W ^a   Day, Robert W ^a   Dwyer, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Comanagement; Fisheries; Individual transferable quota; Property rights; Stewardship; Sustainable behavior

Indexed keywords

COMANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GASTROPOD; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS;

EID: 84867128575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04770-170301     Document Type: Article

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