The Lobster Gangs of Maine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lobster Gangs of Maine write by James M. Acheson. This book was released on 2012-05-22. The Lobster Gangs of Maine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
The Lobster Gangs of Maine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lobster Gangs of Maine write by James M. Acheson. This book was released on 1988. The Lobster Gangs of Maine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
Capturing the Commons
Capturing the Commons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capturing the Commons write by James M. Acheson. This book was released on 2014-08-26. Capturing the Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first century is learning to create the conditions under which people will erect effective and workable rules to conserve those resources. James M. Acheson, author of the best-selling Lobster Gangs of Maine (the seminal work on the culture and economics of lobster fishing), here turns his attention to the management of the lobster industry. In this illuminating new book, he shows that resource degradation is not inevitable. Indeed, the Maine lobster fishery is one of the most successful fisheries in the world. Catches have been stable since World War II, and record highs have been achieved since the late 1980s. According to Acheson, these high catches are due, in part, to the institutions generated by the lobster-fishing industry to control fishing practices. These rules are effective. Rational choice theory frames Acheson's down-to-earth study. Rational choice theorists believe that the overexploitation of marine resources stems from their common-pool nature, which results in collective action problems. In fisheries, what is rational for the individual fishermen can lead to disaster for the society. The progressive Maine lobster industry, lobster fishermen, and local groups have solved a series of such problems by creating three different sets of regulations: informal territorial rules; rules to control the number of traps; and formal conservation legislation. In recent years, the industry has successfully influenced new regulations at the federal level and has developed a strong co-management system with the Maine government. The process of developing these rules has been quite acrimonious; factions of fishermen have disagreed over lobster rules designed to give commercial advantage to one group or another. Although fishermen and scientists have come to share a conservation ethic, they often disagree over how to best conserve the lobster and even the quality of science. The importance of Capturing the Commons is twofold: it provides a case study of the management of one highly successful fishery, which can serve as a management model for policy makers, politicians, and local communities; and it adds to the body of theory concerning the conditions under which people will and will not devise institutions to manage natural resources.
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberty Men and Great Proprietors write by Alan Taylor. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom write by Erik Nordman. This book was released on 2021-07-08. The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the only way to stem the tide was to impose restrictions on how we used resources, such as land, water, and fish, from either the free market or the government. This notion was upended by Elinor Ostrom, whose work to show that regular people could sustainably manage their community resources eventually won her the Nobel Prize. Ostrom’s revolutionary proposition fundamentally changed the way we think about environmental governance. In The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, author Erik Nordman brings to life Ostrom’s brilliant mind. Half a century ago, she was rejected from doctoral programs because she was a woman; in 2009, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Her research challenged the long-held dogma championed by Garrett Hardin in his famous 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” which argued that only market forces or government regulation can prevent the degradation of common pool resources. The concept of the “Tragedy of the Commons” was built on scarcity and the assumption that individuals only act out of self-interest. Ostrom’s research proved that people can and do act in collective interest, coming from a place of shared abundance. Ostrom’s ideas about common resources have played out around the world, from Maine lobster fisheries, to ancient waterways in Spain, to taxicabs in Nairobi. In writing The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, Nordman traveled extensively to interview community leaders and stakeholders who have spearheaded innovative resource-sharing systems, some new, some centuries old. Through expressing Ostrom’s ideas and research, he also reveals the remarkable story of her life. Ostrom broke barriers at a time when women were regularly excluded from academia and her research challenged conventional thinking. Elinor Ostrom proved that regular people can come together to act sustainably—if we let them. This message of shared collective action is more relevant than ever for solving today’s most pressing environmental problems.
