Introduction and overview / Decline of rural commons role of population growth and public policies / Common pool resource management in Himachal Pradesh / Commons, development and the poor / Integrating common pool resources management with rural development programmes / Community and household water management: the key to environmental regeneration and poverty alleviation / Integrated management of water and land for sustainable development in semi-arid areas / Improved water management through farmers' participation / Sustaining Tamil Nadu's tanks: a review of issues and approaches / Management of common pool resources irrigation tanks of Southern India / Groundwater management: problems and opportunities / Groundwater resources: looming crisis / Managing groundwater resource on Deccan Plateau: Pani Panchayat as an institution of collective action / Common property land resources in India: some issues in regeneration and management / Greening the wastelands: experiences from the tree growers' cooperatives project / Socio-economic impact of joint management of common lands in the Aravallis of Harvana / Fuelwood production through wasteland development: some policy issues / Common pool degraded lands: technological and institutional options / Management of inland fisheries resources under different property regimes / Open water capture fisheries: development strategies and policies / Impact of modern shrimp farming on common property resources in coastal zones of Tamil Nadu / Sacred groves as common property resources: an exploratory study / Medicinal plants revisited: an institutional inquiry in the common property resource regime / Biodiversity: a key issue for commons management in the Himalaya region / Ecotourism in Sikkim: contributions toward conservation of biodiversity resources / Nature conservation areas: who will protect them? / Shared management of protected areas: possibilities and constraints in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur / Management issues of aquatic resources including wetlands / Enclosure and recovery of the biological and intellectual commons / Recognizing and rewarding common pool knowledge resources / Alternative governance in common pool resources