Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis

Edella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom

Land Economics, 1992, vol. 68, issue 3, 249-262

Abstract: The term "common-property resource" is an example of a term repeatedly used to refer to property owned by a government or by no one. It is also used for property owned by a community of resource users. Such usage leads to confusion in scientific study and policy analysis. In this paper we develop a conceptual schema for arraying property-rights regimes that distinguishes among diverse bundles of rights ranging from authorized user, to claimant, to proprietor, and to owner. We apply this conceptual schema to analyze findings from a variety of empirical settings including the Maine lobster industry.

Date: 1992
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