Environmental Resouce Management: Public of Private? Bish 1977

This, more overtly, is preoccupied with the public private debate over commons dilemmas Similar to the last paper, it seems to do a clear job of examing the relative pros and cons of private vs public ownership, though with a little more awareness of the artificiality of the dichotomy. "Any proposal for environmental resource management is unlikely to be successful if it does not specify porperty rights; or, when large groups are involved, provide a mechanism to reduce the decision-making costs among the group members"

"Distinguishing between public and private resources management is usually meaningless in determining how effectively a resource will be used or preserved. Instead, one must look at the specific incentive either the private owner or the public manager faces in allocating the resources he controls."