“This important volume brings together cutting-edge work by top scholars and age-old and emergent problems in the management of scarce natural resources. The authors address current high-stakes dilemmas like climate change and endangered species, as well as longstanding and evolving property rights systems for managing land, air, water, and other resources. In addition to the wealth of insights contained in the individual contributions, there is a tremendous synergy among the pieces, reflecting and extending the rich exchange of ideas in the conference that gave rise to this collection.”

Daniel H. Cole is professor at the Maurer School of Law at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences.