Includes bibliographical references and index.

The context -- Institutional dynamics and natural resource management / Alexander Smajgl and Silva Larson -- Institutional diversity and contextual change -- Multiple institutions for multiple outcomes / Elinor Ostrom -- The challenge of maintaining the salience of common property rights with increasing cultural and socio-economic heterogeneity / Katrina Myrvang Brown -- Institutional misfit -- Traditional and customary land tenure and appurtenant rights : reflections on critical factors of an ecologically sustainable Australian outback / Alex Amankwah -- Substantive and procedural dimensions of old and new forms of property : IPRS, the CBD and the protection of traditional ecological knowledge / Michael Jeffery -- Myth, embeddedness and tradition: property rights perceptions from the Pacific / Spike Boydell -- Indigenous property right to water : environmental flows, cultural values and tradeable property rights / Donna Craig -- Commercial forestry : an economic development opportunity consistent with the property rights of the Wik people to natural resources / Tyron J. Venn -- Coping with a tragedy of the Australian aboriginal common / Rolf Gerritsen and Anna Straton -- Experiences in dealing with institutional dynamics -- Designing robust common property regimes for collaboration towards rural sustainability / David J. Brunckhorst and Graham R. Marshall -- The need to consider the administration of property rights and restrictions before creating them / Ken Lyons, Kevin Davies and Ed Cottrell -- Building institutional incentives in dying communities / Alex Smajgl, Melissa Nursey-Bray, Karen Vella, Alexander Herr -- The potential for market mechanisms to achieve vegetation protection in the desert uplands / John Rolfe -- A metaphysical grounding for ecologically sustainable property rights / Garrick Small.