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Tragedies on Natural Resources: a Commons and Anti-Commons Approach

Year: 2009

Type: preprint

Abstract: Ambiguous concepts blur analytical and policy prescription clarity. In the literature on Natural Resources it would be difficult to find a concept as misunderstood as commons. This paper clarifies this confusion and establishes an adequate conceptualisation. A typology of property-rights regimes relevant to common property resources is presented and a new concept – anticommons - is introduced. The reflex of this regimes distinction on the design of the natural resources policy is discussed and this conceptualisation is used to study exemplar cases in the area of fisheries and aquaculture policy in Portugal. Key Words: Property rights, commons, anticommons, entrepreneur, fisheries

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Authors: Manuel Pacheco Coelho, José Filipe, Manuel Ferreira

Language: English

Topic: Coastal and Marine Management

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2104239386

Cites: 9

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10