The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice

by Vincent Ostrom

Book Overview

The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents fifty previously unpublished essays by Vincent Ostrom on the U.S. Government's environmental problems and resource governance and span the six decades of Ostrom's career in political science and public administration. Including everything from a 1947 essay on Western (U.S) issues in national politics to ending with a 2004 manuscript on Constitutional foundations and federal institutional forms, these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739126105
• ISBN13: 9780739126103
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher