The Quest to Understand Human Affairs Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice

This volume presents fifty previously unpublished essays by Vincent Ostrom on the U.S. government's environmental problems and resource governance. Political theorist Barbara Allen has edited the work and supplied extensive notes that provide context and identify key events and persons cited in the works. These remarkable essays offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of institutional analysis, resource governance, policy, and administration, and speak to the worldwide transformations in democracies and human and environmental relations. Book jacket.

Vincent Ostrom is the founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington. Barbara Allen is professor of political science at Carleton College.