Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

Foreword.- Introduction.- The Tragedy of the Commons: A Theoretical Update.- Who is in the Commons? Defining Community and Management Practices in Long Term Natural Resource Management.- Managing risk through cooperation: Need-based transfers and risk pooling among the societies of the Human Generosity Project.- Trolls, Water, Time, and Community: Resource Management in the Mývatn District of Northeast Iceland.- Organization of high-altitude summer pastures: the dialectics of conflict and cooperation.- Large-Scale Land Acquisition as Commons Grabbing: A comparative analysis of six African case studies.- Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Resource Management in the Chad Basin.- Mollusk Harvesting in the Pre-European Contact Pacific Islands: investigating Resilience and Sustainability.- Environment and Landscapes of Latin America's Past.- Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Variability and Resiliency of Early Complex Societies in Mesoamerica.- The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management.- Identifying Common Pool Resources in the Archaeological Record: A Case Study of Water Commons from the North American Southwest.