Environmental Governance and Common Pool Resources: A Comparison of Fishery and Forestry

This text analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, more particularly fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public regulation has intervened to fight the common pool resource problem by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of property rights.

It focuses on the various forms of regulation that have been put in place to protect fisheries and forestry over the past decades, both from a theoretical as well as from a policy perspective, comparing the concrete interaction of legal and policy instruments in eight separate jurisdictions.