ABSTRACT
Human activities get organized through social organization, as cooperation is required and conflicts have to be resolved. Practices, procedures, organization, and institutions evolve over time, and attitudes and culture of activity develop. Natural resources management was the predominant activity in agricultural societies, and social organization developed particularly in that context. Evolution of the village communities was a natural corollary. These could be further organized in terms of increasingly larger organizations of kingdoms and empires, with the latter concerned primarily with issues of protection of life and collection of land revenues. With an almost quasistable population and technology, similarly stable institutional setups and practices for environmental management evolved.
