Common Property Resources and the Environmental Context-Role of Biophysical versus Social Stresses

Common Property Resources and the Environmental Context Role of Biophysical versus Social Stresses N S Jodha This paper deals with common property resources (CPRs) as a part societal responses to high risk-low productivity environment in the dry regions of India and the decline CPRs under changing social and institutional circumstances despite their unchanged bio-physical contexts, leading to degradation of a community asset and erosion of environment-friendly survival options for the people.