Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis

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.

• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Land Economics

• Publication date

  1992-08-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Law, Economics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/3146375
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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