Adapting rules for sustainable resource use

This book summarises papers presented at an international workshop, "Property Rights: the key to achieving ecologically sustainable development in Outback regions", held in early March 2005 at Undara, Australia. This workshop was a part of the project " Opportunities for the Australia Outback -Researching institutional arrangements in the North ", which focussed on analysing the existing institutional arrangements in the region using different case studies. The underlying workshop approach was to bring together the international experience and explore together potential learnings for the use of natural resources. The workshop was conceptualised around two perspectives relevant to Australia's Outback: the natural resource perspective and the indigenous perspective. We would like to thank all presenters for their excellent presentations and the efficient process of improving papers through intense reviewing by each workshop participant.