About the CPR Digest

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The Common Property Resource Digest is published four times per year. A subscription is included with a membership to the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP).

The Editor-in-Chief is Doug Wilson.

It is the quarterly publication of the International Association for the Study of Common Property published with support from the Ford Foundation.

An official organ of IASCP, The CPR Digest features articles, the CPR Forum (Commentaries and responses on CPR issues), Book Reviews, Bibliographies, Announcements, and Letters to the Editor.
 

CPR Digest History

The Common Property Resource Digest was first published in December 1989. The publication was an outgrowth of the work of a group of about twenty scholars (the Inter-University Working Group on Common Property Resource Management) initiated by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1983. Edward Lotterman, the first Digest Editor summarized the development further in the first issue of the Digest: "Organized as an NAS panel on Common Property Resources in 1984, the group sought to study CPR systems and their implications for development in the Third World. The group quickly recognized that there was a great deal of existing knowledge, but that this information was not well identified or organized. They also noted that the geographic and disciplinary diversity of existing studies prevented it from being a well-integrated or disseminated 'body of knowledge.' Conscious efforts to overcome this obstacle were clearly called for. A group of panel members agreed that development of a network through the initial medium of a newsletter was a step that should be taken. Various individuals drafted proposals and explored possible sources of funding. Dr. C. Ford Runge at the University of Minnesota assumed primary responsibility as the project took shape."

The Ford Foundation funded the primary issue of the Digest with the following specified objectives:

1. Disseminating news about applied, practical work in the field of common property conservation, use, and management
2. Informing members of ongoing research activities and of preliminary or final findings of such research
3. Informing members of opportunities for and results of conferences, symposia, workshops, and other opportunities for professional interchange
4. Informing members of significant books, journal articles, or reports that may contain useful information for their work
5. Reporting on significant common-property-related events or trends.
6. Ultimately developing a vital, self-sustaining, productive network of people who spontaneously share information and collaborate with each other.

Nos. 1-25, Dec. 1986- Oct. 1992
Published as the "Communication Medium of the Common Property
Resource Network"
Place of Publication: St. Paul, MN
Editor: Edward Lotterman

Nos. 26-31, June 1992- Oct. 1994
Published "by IASCP in cooperation with Winrock and ICRISAT"
Place of Publication: ICRISAT, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India
Editor-in-Chief: John Kerr
Managing Editor: Ashwai Gupta

(Issue No. 32 was not published.)

No. 33 April 1995
Published "by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in cooperation with Winrock" [for the International Association for the Study of Common Property]
Place of Publication: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editors: Nancy Peluso and William Bentley

No. 34, June 1995
Published "by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
in cooperation with Winrock" [for the International Association for the Study of Common Property]
Place of Publication:  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editor-in-Chief:  Nancy Peluso

Nos. 35-39-, Sept. 1995 - Oct. 1996-
"Published for the IASCP by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies"
Place of Publication: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor: Julie Greenberg
 
No. 40, January 1997
CPR Forum: "Gendering the Commons"
"Published for the IASCP by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies"
Place of Publication: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor: Julie Greenberg
 
No. 41, April 1997
CPR Forum: "Common Property Theory and Practice"
"Published for the IASCP by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies"
Place of Publication: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor: Julie Greenberg
 
No. 42, July 1997
CPR Forum: "The Common Property Workshop At Rutgers on February 28, 1997"
"Published for the IASCP by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies"
Place of Publication: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor: Julie Greenberg
 
No. 43, September 1997
CPR Forum:  "Water and Equity"
"Published for the IASCP by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies"
Place of Publication:  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Editor-in-Chief:  Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor:  Julie Greenberg

No. 44, January 1998
CPR Forum:"Ethnic Identities and Asian States"
Place of Publication:Berkeley, CA
Editor-in-Chief:Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor:Julie Greenberg

No. 45, May 1998
CPR Forum:"Mapmaking"
Place of Publication:Berkeley, CA
Editor-in-Chief:Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor:Julie Greenberg

No. 46, July/October 1998
CPR Forum: "Enclosing the Academy?"
Place of Publication: Berkeley, CA
Editor-in-Chief: Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor: Julie Greenberg

No. 47, December 1998
CPR Forum: "Legal Pluralism"
Place of Publication: Berkeley, CA
Editor-in-Chief: Nancy Peluso
Managing Editor: Julie Greenberg

No. 48, April 1999
CPR Forum: "Privatizing Commons: The Iceland Supreme Court ITQ Decision"
Place of Publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 49, July 1999
CPR Forum: "Multilateral Development Banks and the Commons
Place of Publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 50, October 1999
CPR Forum: History, Resource Access, and Community-based Management in Southern and Eastern AFrica
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 51, January 2000
CPR Forum: Beyond Natural Resources
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 52, March 2000
CPR Forum: IASCP Regionalization
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 53, June 2000
CPR Forum: Design Principles and Social Construction in CPR Theory
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 54, September 2000
CPR Forum: Reports from Constituting the Commons: The Eighth Biennial Conference of the IASCP
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 55, December 2000
CPR Forum: Game Theory and CPR Research
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 56, March 2001
CPR Forum: Ecolabelling in Forestry and Fisheries
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 57, June 2001
CPR Forum: Papers from the African Public Interest Law and Community-based Property Rights Workshop
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 58, September 2001
CPR Forum: New Analytic Tools for CPR Management
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 59, December 2001
CPR Forum: Trans-boundary Natural Resource Management and the Commons
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 60, March 2002
CPR Forum: Protected Areas and the Commons
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 61, June 2002
CPR Forum: Indigenous Property Rights
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 62, September 2002
CPR Forum: Reports from IASCP2002
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 63, December 2002
CPR Forum: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 64, March 2003
CPR Forum: Explaining CPR Institutions
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 65, June 2003
CPR Forum: The Information Commons
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Wilson

No. 66, September 2003
CPR Forum: Common Resource Management in Oaxaca
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 67, December 2003
CPR Forum: Time to Change the IASCP Mission Statement?
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 68, March 2004
CPR Forum: Conceptual Consistency, Contemporary Analytical Tools and Theoretical Questions
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 69, June 2004
CPR Forum: Migration and CPR Management
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 70, September 2004
CPR Forum: Reports on the Tenth Biennial Meeting of IASCP
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 71, December 2004
CPR Forum: Reports on the Tenth Biennial Meeting of IASCP
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 72, March 2005
CPR Forum: Open Access
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 73, June 2005
CPR Forum: Artic Research Planning
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 74, September 2005
CPR Forum: Papers from the African Floodplain and Wetlands Project
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 75, December 2005
CPR Forum: Knowledge as a Commons for Commons Management
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Douglas Wilson
Assistant Editor Alyne Delaney

No. 76, March 2006
CPR Forum: Conservation Policy and the Commons
Place of Publication: Albany, NY
Editor-in-Chief Alyne Delaney