Exploring Ostrom?s approach to property rights and institutions is fundamental to any effort aimed at ?reconsidering property? by discussing the existing ?alternative conceptualizations?. Beyond the fact that Ostrom was the first to introduce a conceptualization of common property based on the...

This article presents a sympathetic but critical examination of institutional ecological economics (IEE)—a heterodox body of work on environmental governance—as developed (separately) by J. Paavola and A. Vatn. We highlight the theoretical limitations of IEE related to two issues: the causes...