Common Pool Resource Management System

Natural resources, the one works as the material basis of the production activities and daily life for human beings, is also the essential requirement to achieve sustainable development. While due to the Common-pool Resources attributes it possesses, say people share the entire resources, but adopt the resource units respectively, the rational individual activities always lead to the invasion and obsolescence in the natural resources. This is the root why the current resources and environment problems exist, and with the development of the economy, the inconsistency between natural resources, economy, and environment becomes more and more severe. Because the development of economy depletes great amount of natural resources, the support effects from natural resources to economy developments have become the limitation factors, and the environment people live has also been destroyed simultaneity. So, how to exploit natural resources appropriately, keep the consistency between natural resources and the economy development, and also improve the sustainable development are the serious problems we have to face now.For the aforementioned reasons, this dissertation starts from the institutional analysis, try to explore the effective institutions for the natural resources management.The first part of this dissertation is introduction, which firstly introduced the analysis background and significance, the actual ponderance of the natural resources problems and the theoretical limitations on solving this problem; and the went to the literature reviews on this topic; finally the analytical method and logic were introduced as well, say the IAPP method, started from the attributes of natural resources, respectively discussed the relationship between natural resources and economy growth; set water resources as the example to investigate the property right of natural resources; the principal role the government play in natural resources management and its problems.The second part introduced the relationship between natural resources and economy growth, firstly the concept of natural resources, its classification, characteristics and attributes were described; secondly, the relationship between them was discussed from two aspects: 1, natural resources support economy growth the materials and energies. 2, based on the theory of "Curse of Natural Resources", the negative relationship between them was explained.The third part of this dissertation was moved on to the discussion of property rights of natural resources, firstly the concept of property right, the property right of natural resources, the particularity of natural resources property right, and the transition of the natural resources property right institutions were introduced; then the water resources was used as a case to discuss the establishment of water property institutions from both of the define of water resources property (the necessity, the premise, the design and implement of the scheme) and the establishment of water market.The fourth part emphasized the roles the government plays in the natural resources management, started from its comparative advantages in managing natural resources, its important role in natural resources management and property rights define process were discussed, and from both of the subjective and objective aspects, and the C-D difference model the "Government Failure" problems in natural resources management were analyzed; finally the way to improve the government efficiency in natural resources management was proposed by the "Polycentric" theory from Ostrom.The part five is the conclusion of the dissertation, the conclusions were as follows: for the natural resources management, we should strengthen and perfect the property right of natural resources continuously, and try to establish the natural resource property right exchange market, and also on the basis of government's instruction, join the public, establish the polycentric institutions of natural resources management.