| | | Introduction | | 1 |
| 1 | | The Drama of the Commons by Thomas Dietz and Nives Dolsak and Elinor Ostrom | | 3 |
| Pt. I | | Resource Users, Resource Systems, and Behavior in the Drama of the Commons | | 37 |
| 2 | | Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability by Arun Agrawal | | 41 |
| 3 | | Unequal Irrigators: Heterogeneity and Commons Management in Large-Scale Multivariate Research by Pranab Bardhan and Jeff Dayton-Johnson | | 87 |
| 4 | | Factors Influencing Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas: A Review of Experimental Psychological Research by Shirli Kopelman and J. Mark Weber and David M. Messick | | 113 |
| 5 | | Appropriating the Commons: A Theoretical Explanation by Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher | | 157 |
| Pt. II | | Privatization and Its Limitations | | 193 |
| 6 | | The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned? by Tom Tietenberg | | 197 |
| 7 | | Common Property, Regulatory Property, and Environmental Protection: Comparing Community-Based Management to Tradable Environmental Allowances by Carol M. Rose | | 233 |
| Pt. III | | Cross-Scale Linkages and Dynamic Interactions | | 259 |
| 8 | | Institutional Interplay: The Environmental Consequences of Cross-Scale Interactions by Oran R. Young | | 263 |
| 9 | | Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages: Perspectives from the Bottom Up by Fikret Berkes | | 293 |
| Pt. IV | | Emerging Issues | | 323 |
| 10 | | Scientific Uncertainty, Complex Systems, and the Design of Common-Pool Institutions by James Wilson | | 327 |
| 11 | | Emergence of Institutions for the Commons: Contexts, Situations, and Events by Bonnie J. McCay | | 361 |
| 12 | | An Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd and Brian Paciotti | | 403 |
| | | Conclusion | | 443 |
| 13 | | Knowledge and Questions After 15 Years of Research by Paul S. Stern and Thomas Dietz and Nives Dolsak | | 445 |
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