This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural reso

In everyday practice, private and common property relations often accommodate a wide variety of demands made by the owners and users of land. In a stark contras

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory