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Common Property As An Institutional Response To Environmental Variability

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  • GARY D. THOMPSON
  • PAUL N. WILSON

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Relationships between the potential productivity of land and property rights generally are couched in terms of measures of central tendency or means. However, risk or variance as a measure of uncertainty also is critical in relating property rights and organizational arrangements developed within various property regimes. Meteorological and hydrological research results support the appropriateness of risk‐spreading property regimes, especially in semi‐arid and arid lands. Spatial diversification models indicate that common property regimes can be a rational response to environmental variability. Efforts by the public sector to privatize and fence grazing lands on the extensive margin may have limited appeal to pastoralists throughout the world.

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  • Gary D. Thompson & Paul N. Wilson, 1994. "Common Property As An Institutional Response To Environmental Variability," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 12(3), pages 10-21, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:12:y:1994:i:3:p:10-21
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1994.tb00430.x
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