Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction and overview/Dinesh K. Marothia. I. The commons, rural development and institutions: 2. Decline of rural commons role of population growth and public policies/N.S. Jodha. 3. Common pool resource management in Himachal Pradesh/Y.S. Negi. 4. Commons, development and the poor/M.V. Nadkarni. 5. Integrating common pool resources management with rural development programmes/Katar Singh. II. Water resources, land use and irrigation systems and institutions: 6. Community and household water management: the key to environmental regeneration and poverty alleviation/Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. 7. Integrated management of water and land for sustainable development in semi-arid areas/V. Ballabh and P. Thomas. 8. Improved water management through farmers’ participation/I.C. Mahapatra and R.K. Rajput. 9. Sustaining Tamil Nadu’s tanks: a review of issues and approaches/Tushaar Shah, R. Seenivasan, C.R. Shanmugam and M.P. Vasimalai. 10. Management of common pool resources irrigation tanks of Southern India/K. Palanisami and R. Balasubramanian. 11. Groundwater management: problems and opportunities/P.K. Joshi. 12. Groundwater resources: looming crisis/M.S. Rathore. 13. Managing groundwater resource on Deccan plateau: Pani Panchayat as an institution of collective action/R.S. Deshpande and Amalendu Jyotishi. III. Degraded lands and framing of institutional choices: 14. Common property land resources in India: some issues in regeneration and management/Sudarshan Iyengar and Nimisha Shukla. 15. Greening the wastelands: experiences from the tree growers’ cooperatives project/V.K. Misra. 16. Socio-economic impact of joint management of common lands in the Aravallis of Haryana/Jagdeesh C. Kalla and R.N. Kaul. 17. Fuelwood production through wasteland development: some policy issues/N.C. Saxena. 18. Common pool degraded lands: technological and institutional options/P.S. Pathak. IV. Institutional arrangements in fisheries resources: 19. Management of inland fisheries resources under different property regimes/M. Sinha and Pradeep K. Katiha. 20. Open water capture fisheries: development strategies and policies/P.V. Dehadrai. 21. Impact of modern shrimp farming on common property resources in coastal zones of Tamil Nadu/C. Ramasamy, C. Sekar and S. Selvam. V. Biodiversity and institutional structures: 22. Sacred groves as common property resources: an exploratory study/Kailash C. Malhotra. 23. Medicinal plants revisited: an institutional inquiry in the common property resource regime/M.G. Chandrakanth, Ravishankar, A. Rangesh Parmesh and M.S. Suneetha. 24. Biodiversity: a key issue for commons management in the Himalaya region/Vir Singh. 25. Ecotourism in Sikkim: contributions toward conservation of biodiversity resources/Eklabya Sharma, Nandita Jain, S.C. Rai and Renzino Lepeha. 26. Nature conservation areas: who will protect them?/Ashish Kothari. 27. Shared management of protected areas: possibilities and constraints in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur/Kanchan Chopra. 28. Management issues of aquatic resources including wetlands/Brij Gopal. VI. Common pool knowledge: 29. The enclosure and recovery of the biological and intellectual commons/Vandana Shiva. 30. Recognizing and rewarding common pool knowledge resources/Madhav Gadgil. VII. Property rights, institutional change and policy problem: 31. Alternative governance in common pool resources/Dinesh K. Marothia. Index.
"This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary assembly of thoughts in which agricultural scientists, fisheries scientists, forestry experts, alternative medicine systems experts, environmental and resource economists, geographers, ecologists, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, physicists, biologists, botanists, environmental engineers, environmental advocates and philosophers, journalists and environmental policy analysts have addressed their tasks focusing on institutions as a crosscutting theme in their writings on sustainable use of common pool resources (CPRs). As such the book may serve as the basis for orchestrating a coordinated research programme in the different agro-climate conditions in the country and as a framework to build-up institutional reforms to complement the structural adjustment prgrammes which are aimed at a sustainable management of CPRs."
