Role of Law in Natural Resource - Couverture souple

Joep Spiertz (editor)|Melanie G. Wiber (editor)

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9052505012 ISBN 13 : 9789052505015

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Why is it that the management of natural resources, although rational and well meaning, has so far very much resembled a “bull in a china shop”?

Governments and organizations have responded to increasing pressure on scarce natural resources by creating a multiplicity of, and occasionally conflicting, rules. In the resulting confusion, policy objectives are never realized. Contributors to The Role of Law in Natural Resource Management investigate these responses and ask questions designed to illuminate the real complexity of the natural resource arena. To illustrate that preference for private property over common property is a core problem in both industrialized and developing countries, the editors have assembled case studies from both Western and non-Western countries.

The contributors to this volume cover classic topics such as the managment of pasture in the colonial and post-colonial Sahel and the fisheries in the eastern United States and Canada. They go beyond these to the management of the woodlot and dairy industries in Canada, irrigation water in Nepal and Bali and the privatization of ejido lands in Mexico.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joep Spiertz was a lecturer of legal anthropology in the Department of Agrarian Law of Wageningen Agricultural University. His main publications are on the significance of law for the access to, and the management of, natural resources in rural areas of developing nations. Melanie G. Wiber is a professor of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick. She has published numerous articles in legal anthropology journals; recent books include, Erect Men/Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, "Race" and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution, and Politics, Property and Law in the Philippine Uplands, both published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9052505012
• ISBN 13: 9789052505015
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible