International Journal of the Commons

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Vol 3, No 1 (2009)

(Guest editors: Andreas Neef and David Thomas)

Table of Contents

Editorials

Andreas Neef, David Thomas
Rewarding the upland poor for saving the commons? Evidence from Southeast Asia 1-15

Special feature articles

Alana George, Alain Pierret, Arthorn Boonsaner, Valentin Christian, Olivier Planchon
Payment for Environmental Services (PES) - A feasibility study for watershed services in mainland Southeast Asia 16-40
Chapika Sangkapitux, Andreas Neef, Worapong Polkongkaew, Nongkran Pramoon, Sakdamnoen Nonkiti, Ke Nanthasen
Willingness of upstream and downstream resource managers to engage in compensation schemes for environmental services 41-63
Damien Jourdain, Do Anh Tai, Dang Dinh Quang, Sushil Pandey
Payments for environmental services in upper-catchments of Vietnam: will it help the poorest? 64-81
Beria Leimona, Laxman Joshi, Meine van Noordwijk
Can rewards for environmental services benefit the poor? Lessons from Asia 82-107
Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt, Stefan Schwarze, Manfred Zeller
Payments for environmental services – Carbon finance options for smallholders’ agroforestry in Indonesia 108-130

Research articles

Tim Heinmiller
Path dependency and collective action in common pool governance 131-147

Book reviews

Thembela Kepe
Claassens, A. and B. Cousins (eds.) 2009. Land, Power & Custom: Controversies generated by South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Act. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 148-150
Bernard Debarbieux
Orlove, B., E. Wiegandt and B. H. Luckman (eds.) 2008. Darkening Peaks. Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 151-152
Douglas Clark
Sodhi, N.S., G. Acciaioli, M. Erb and A. Khee-Jin Tan (eds.) 2008. Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case studies from the Malay Archipelago. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 153-155
Jon D. Unruh
Derick, F. and D. James 2009. The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’. New York: Routledge-Cavendish. 156-157
Eric A. Coleman
Donoghue, E.M. and V.E. Sturtevant (eds.) 2008. Forest Community Connections: Implications for Research, Management, and Governance. Washington, DC: RFF Press. 158-159
Douglas Clyde Wilson
Webster, D.G. 2009. Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 160-161
Maria-Jose Iglesias
Hope, J. 2008. Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 162-163