Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theorise on the nature of property management broadly understood as resource management and demonstrate the actual and potential contribution of innovative property management to sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is...

Purpose – To re‐examine the role of property management from an institutional economics perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The role of property management is explored by asking why property management has emerged from the first principle. Then, an analytical framework for property...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe conventional top‐down planning as applied to land markets – and its limitations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper includes a brief survey of recent literature that sheds light on the argument and that puts property management into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the intellectual pre‐conditions for meaningful debate about resource management of the sea and its contents. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is historical and theoretical. Findings – The argument contends that because of the...