Vol 1, No 1 (2007)

(Guest editors: Elinor Ostrom and Frank van Laerhoven)

Table of Contents

Tine de Moor, Erling Berge,
Welcome to the International Journal of the Commons 1-2
Frank van Laerhoven, Elinor Ostrom,
Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons 3-28
James Wilson
Scale and Costs of Fishery Conservation 29-42
Marco A. Janssen, John M Anderies
Robustness Trade-offs in Social-Ecological Systems 43-66
David G. McGrath, Oriana T. Almeida, Frank D. Merry
The Influence of Community Management Agreements on Household Economic Strategies : Cattle Grazing and Fishing Agreements on the Lower Amazon Floodplain 67-88
John Kerr
Watershed Management: Lessons from Common Property Theory 89-110
Arun Agrawal
Forests, Governance, and Sustainability: Common Property Theory and its Contributions 111-136
Friday Njaya
Governance Challenges of the Implementation of Fisheries Co-Management : Experiences from Malawi 137-153