Capturing the Commons Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry

Name: Capturing the Commons Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry
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ISBN: 9781584653936

ISBN-10: 1584653930

ISBN-13: 9781584653936

Edition: 2004

Authors: James M. Acheson

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One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first century is learning to create the conditions under which people will erect effective and workable rules to conserve those resources. James M. Acheson, author of the best-selling Lobster Gangs of Maine (the seminal work on the culture and economics of lobster fishing), here turns his attention to the management of the lobster industry. In this illuminating new book, he shows that resource…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.98" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Spatial Strategies and Territoriality


The Island Game: Informal Rules and the Factors Producing Them


The Genesis of State Laws for the Lobster Industry


Co-management in the Maine Lobster Industry


Science and Local Knowledge


Dealing with the Feds


The Politics of Science


Conclusion


Notes


References Cited


Index