Environmental Governance and Common Pool Resources

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public regulation have intervened to fight the common pool resource problem by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of property rights. It focuses on the various forms of regulation that have been put in place to protect fisheries and forestry over the past decades – both from a theoretical as well as from a policy perspective – comparing the concrete interaction of legal and policy instruments in eight separate jurisdictions.

Jing Liu is Associate Professor of Law in the Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China.

Michael Faure is Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics at the School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Peter Mascini is Professor of Empirical Legal Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.