pt. 1. Theoretical studies of the commons: The tragedy of the conceptual expansion of the commons / Yutaka Suga ; Eclectic collaborative commons as an integration of closure and openness / Makoto Inoue ; Complementary environmental resource policies in the public, commons and private spheres : an analysis of external impacts on the commons / Gaku Mitsumata -- pt. 2. Institution of the commons: The custom and legal theory of iriai in Japan : a history of the discourse on the position of the rights of common in the modern legal system / Tatsuya Suzuki ; The position of fishery commons in the multilevel fishery resource governance in Japan / Takeshi Murota ; Fishermen in China's Taihu Lake Basin and inland freshwater fisheries : unsettled questions about the nature of rights / Izuru Ota ; Cross-scale institutional linkages : a focus on environmental networks in Kuraburi Estuary, Thailand / Shimpei Iwasaki -- pt. 3. Local commons and survival strategies under globalization: Community sustainability and adaptation to modernization and globalization : case study of the Lake Biwa region in Japan / Hiroshi Noda ; Recreation, easy access and rediscovery? Possibilities and problems of recent footpath projects in Japan / Rui Izumi and Yuichiro Hirano ; Multilayered natural resource management in open and closed commons : a case study on the right of access and the state, community and farm commons in Norway / Daisaku Shimada and Takeshi Murota ; The governance of local commons and community administration : the hidden potential of the property ward system / Haruo Saito ; The dynamics of cross-scale linkages in the context of global commons : aspects of "resistance" to wildlife conservation in the Maasailands of Kenya / Toshio Meguro ; Local governance for groundwater conservation based on voluntary restrictions on the use of common property : a study of utaki in Miyako, Okinawa / Yasuhiro Nakanishi -- pt. 4. Collaboration, democracy and multilevel environmental governance: Environmental governance from a public perspective : a reappraisal of state objectives / Ken Takeshita ; Forest volunteer activity in Japan / Shinji Yamamoto ; Sustainability of local shopping districts as commons : a case study of the revitalization of the shopping district centred around Kurokabe Corporation in Nagahama City / Yoshio Takatsu ; Institutional design of watershed committees in Japan / Tomohiko Ohno ; Watershed governance and dam construction projects : a case study on the Daido River Dam in the Yodo River Basin / Congmian Jiao -- Conclusion: Building common property regimes to deter resource-wrecking / Margaret McKean.

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