International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 571-596 (26 pages) Property rights theory has contributed a great deal to global understanding of the factors shaping the ...

The term "common-property resource" is an example of a term repeatedly used to refer to property owned by a government or by no one. It is also used for property owned by a community of resource users ...

Where to begin unraveling the remarkable confusion of David Bollier’s philippic against commercial enterprise? Let’s begin with his astonishing list of alleged “commons.” It includes municipal ...

How much do poor households rely on common property resources for their livelihoods and what’s the role of common resources in the tribal economy? The Ministry of Statistics and Programme ...