WORK ON EFFICIENCY ISSUES AND MANAGEMENT 

OF RESOURCES OWNED IN COMMON

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Resources Owned in Common: A View from Economics. Edited 15 December 2004. Presented before a conference of nongovernment organizations and Governance and Public Policy Public Presentation on separate dates. 

Communal Forest of the Cordillera: The Case of Alno, La Trinidad, Benguet (short version found in page 415-426 of Van der Plog, J. and A. B. Masipiquena (editors). 2005. The future of the Sierra Madre: responding to social and ecological change (proceedings of an international conference on the Sierra Madre). CVPED.  Golden Press: Tuguegarao City, Philippines.

 Work in this area of study will have applications in managing common resources, ancestral domains, cooperatives, and properties held in common by communities. Another important application of work in this area will be on the provision of public goods, privatization, and biodiversity conservation by communities or some of the indigenous communities in particular. 

 I am devoting a significant portion of my time in advancing a self-driven research work on the communal forests of the Cordillera and those in the rest of the country. I  hope that my empirical studies on the communal forests will also serve to create opportunities to validate, refine, or correct my theoretical works on the subject of resources owned in common or "commons" for short. This initiative is not an advocacy for common ownership but simply a study on how the commons can be optimally managed or whether privatization would be the better alternative.

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