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Assignment for Tuesday, November 11This week we stay "social," but turn from small-scale societies to larger-scale societies and the resiliency of their institutions. We will deal with problems of the commons and with problems of managing ecosystems for resiliency.The classic work on the commons is Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons, of which you should read Chapters 1 and 3, paying particular and close attention to the section of chapter 3 from page 88 to 102, which deal with characteristics that make a commons regime resilient, even though she does not use the resilience terminology. For the first part of the seminar, we hope to have a guest speaker who as experience in applying Ostrom's rules for successful management to a common property resource; more details when I know for sure. For the second part of the seminar, we are going to talk fish, specifically the recent changes in fisheries management philosophy, policy and practice, from species management for maximum sustainable yield to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management. To prepare for this section, please read Ray Hilborn's Biocomplexity and Fisheries Sustainability, and Robert Francis's EBFM -- What's it all about, anyway?. We hope to have Professor Francis or one of his students visit us in the second part of the class to discuss resilience of fisheries as socio-ecosystems. |