Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 The Drama of the Commons -- PART I RESOURCE USERS, RESOURCE SYSTEMS, AND BEHAVIOR IN THE DRAMA OF THE COMMONS -- 2 Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability -- 3 Unequal Irrigators: Heterogeneity and Commons Management in Large-Scale Multivariate Research -- 4 Factors Influencing Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas: A Review of Experimental Psychological Research -- 5 Appropriating the Commons: A Theoretical Explanation -- PART II PRIVATIZATION AND ITS LIMITATIONS -- 6 The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned? -- 7 Common Property, Regulatory Property, and Environmental Protection: Comparing Community-Based Management to Tradable Environmental Allowances -- PART III CROSS-SCALE LINKAGES AND DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS -- 8 Institutional Interplay: The Environmental Consequences of Cross-Scale Interactions -- 9 Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages: Perspectives from the Bottom Up -- PART IV EMERGING ISSUES -- 10 Scientific Uncertainty, Complex Systems, and the Design of Common-Pool Institutions -- 11 Emergence of Institutions for the Commons: Contexts, Situations, and Events -- 12 An Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management -- CONCLUSION -- 13 Knowledge and Questions After 15 Years of Research -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- Index.