Paper for the fifth Common Property Conference, Bodø, Norway, 1995.
Includes reprints of the author's Common property resources and the dynamics of rural poverty in India's dry regions (Unasylva, 46:180 (1995), p. 23-39) and Trends in tree management in arid land use in Western Rajasthan (chapter 3 of Tree management in farmer strategies. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995, p. [43]-64).