This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics,shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a richsource of information for those involved in conservation, land dispute resolution, landmarket regulation, public...

The pre-reform period was characterized by state monopoly of land and by land use that did not require any payment. The legal principles of land reform in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union were set in 1989 by the Basic Law on Land Legislation in the USSR and the Soviet Republics....