Institutions and Sustainability

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Institutions and Sustainability: Introduction and Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Institutions and Sustainability: Introduction and Overview

      • Martina Padmanabhan, Volker Beckmann

      Pages 1-24

3. Political Economy of Economic Development and Agricultural Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. The Political Economy of Agricultural Reform in Transition Countries

      • Scott Rozelle, Johan F. M. Swinnen

      Pages 27-41

   3. Make Law, Not War? On the Political Economy of Violence and Appropriation

      • Benedikt Korf

      Pages 43-60

   4. A Marathon Rather than a Sprint: The Reform of the Farmers’ Pension System in Germany and its Impacts

      • Peter Mehl

      Pages 61-82

   5. Complex Policy Choices Regarding Agricultural Externalities: Efficiency, Equity and Acceptability

      • Clem Tisdell

      Pages 83-106

4. Institutions, Governance and Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Multi-level Governance and Natural Resource Management: The Challenges of Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty

      • William Blomquist

      Pages 109-126

   3. Constraints on Rural Governance in the European Union: A Role for Co-operative Associations?

      • Markus Hanisch

      Pages 127-152

   4. Making Environmental Administration More Effective: A Contribution from New Institutional Economics

      • Regina Birner, Heidi Wittmer

      Pages 153-174

   5. Public Good Markets: The Possible Role of Hybrid Governance Structures in Institutions for Sustainability

      • Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Anne Vuylsteke, Wim Verbeke

      Pages 175-191

5. Property Rights, Collective Action and Natural Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand

      • Esther Mwangi, Elinor Ostrom

      Pages 195-222

   3. The Downgrading Effect of Abuse of Power on Trust and Collective Action in Bulgaria’s Irrigation Sector

      • Insa Theesfeld

      Pages 223-242

   4. Payment for Environmental Services: Interactions with Property Rights and Collective Action

      • Brent Swallow, Ruth Meinzen-Dick

      Pages 243-265

   5. An Institutional Economics Analysis of Land Use Contracting: The Case of the Netherlands

      • Nico B. P. Polman, Louis H. G. Slangen

      Pages 267-290

6. Challenges of Institutional Analysis for Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

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   2. Sustainability, Institutions and Behavior

      • Arild Vatn

      Pages 293-314

From the first vague idea to use Konrad Hagedorn’s 60th birthday as an inspi- tion for taking stock of his vibrant academic contributions, this joint book project has been a great pleasure for us in many ways. Pursuing Hagedorn’s intellectual development, we have tried to reflect on the core questions of humanity according to Ernst Bloch “Who are we?”, “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we heading?” In this way, and without knowing it, Konrad Hagedorn initiated a c- lective action process he would have very much enjoyed … if he had been allowed to take part in it. But it was our aim and constant motivation to surprise him with this collection of essays in his honour. Konrad Hagedorn was reared as the youngest child of a peasant family on a small farm in the remote moorland of East Frisia, Germany. During his childhood in the poverty-ridden years after the Second World War, he faced a life where humans were heavily dependent on using nature around them for their livelihoods; meanwhile, he learned about the fragility of the environment. As a boy, he - tended a one-room schoolhouse, where his great intellectual talents were first r- ognised and used for co-teaching his schoolmates. These early teaching expe- ences might have laid the foundations for his later becoming a dedicated lecturer and mentor.

• Agricultural Policy
• Economic Development
• Environmental economics
• Hobbes
• Thomas Hobbes
• agriculture
• development
• ecology
• institutional economics
• natural resource management
• political economy
• politics
• sustainability

From the reviews:

“This book is a fine collection of essays, located at the intersection between agricultural, environmental, and institutional economics. … The book has several strong sides. First of all, it is truly interdisciplinary. Beyond economics, the contributed essays come from anthropology, comparative political science, economic sociology, and cognitive sciences. … Overall, the book would fit very well the library of any research centre or department working on environmental, agricultural, and/or institutional economics.” (Gam Aldashev and Elena Vallino, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 37 (3), 2010)

• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  Volker Beckmann, Martina Padmanabhan

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