This book provides a discussion of natural resource users’ self governance in the context of a modern market-based society. It challenges current explanations of self-governance and suggests alternative perspectives to mobilise the capacity of natural resource users to co-govern their use of a common resource base.
Two case studies are reported; one is about the development of the marine salmon farming industry in Scotland, and the other is about the introduction of a new approach to govern the flatfish catching industry in the Netherlands. This book combines insights from economics, sociology, political theory, critical social theory and management science.
