Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons

* Includes lessons from Africa, Central America, North America and Asia, and detailed coverage of collaborative management in irrigated environments of Australia's Murray Darling Basin * Essential reading for economists, policy-makers, researchers, leaders,practitioners and students working in environmental and natural resource managementMainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet remainspoorly equipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managingenvironmental and resource commons. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents a unique operational approach to how collaborative environmental governance might be brought to fruition in a variety of contexts, whether in industrialized or developing countries. The result is a powerful, useful and badly needed approach to economics for collaborative environmental management of thecommons.