Sustaining Development

'. . . Read the book. It is worthwhile and highly recommended to all people working in agricultural development and similar fields. The book belongs to the most important publications printed recently.' -- Frithjof Kuhnen, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture '. . . the book is a gold mine for those interested in the institutional aspects of development. The author has selected the articles carefully, so that the theme of the book is conveyed in a fruitful manner.' -- Jeena T. Srinivasan, Kyklos '. . . it is well worth reading.' -- Neil Adger, Environment

Daniel W. Bromley, Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin-Madison, US and Visiting Professor, Humboldt University-Berlin, Germany

Contents: Part I: The Development Problem 1. Sustaining Development 2. Reconstituting Economic Systems 3. On Risk, Transactions, and Economic Development in the Semiarid Tropics 4. Development Reconsidered Part II: Property Regimes in Development Policy 5. The Commons, Common Property and Environmental Policy 6. Property Relations and Economic Development 7. Indigenous Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa 8. Property Rights, Externalities, and Resource Degradation 9. Co-Management or No Management 10. Institutions, Governance and Incentives in Common Property Regimes for African Rangelands 11. Economic Dimensions of Community-Based Conservation 12. The Enclosure Movement Revisited 13. Necessity and Purpose in Chinese Agriculture Part III: Empirical Issues 14. The Village Against the Center 15. The Economics of Cain and Abel 16. Extensification of Agriculture and Deforestation 17. Rainfed Mechanized Farming and Deforestation in Central Sudan 18. Natural Resource Prices, Export Policies, and Deforestation 19. Deforestation Index