"The present volume brings together the results and conclusions of a research initiative on the sustainable management of common property bioresources. Though the book is focussed on a particular geographical area and two specific resource use systems - small-scale fisheries and reindeer pastoralism in northern Norway - the topics addressed have much wider relevance and application. Thus, issues pervading the book include the resource practices and usage rights of indigenous peoples, the driving factors affecting the overuse and degradation of biological resources, social and institutional dimensions of natural resource management, weighting biological, economic and social concerns in political decision-making, and the participation of different interest groups in collaborative management processes."--BOOK JACKET.