ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comparison between the governance systems for forestry and fishery in the different countries studied. It discusses and compares the characteristics of the two types of resources and the accordingly adopted property rights. The chapter describes a comparison of public regulation and private regulation used to manage forest and fishery resources. It investigates the similarities and differences in the interaction between public and private regulation. The five preconditions for the proper functioning of property rights are reviewed. The chapter illustrates a short summary of the nine case studies and then conducts the analysis. In that five case studies Indonesia, Bolivia, United States and Canada, and Sweden focused on forestry, whereas four others South Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, and Japan focused on fisheries. In many of the examined countries, shifts could be observed towards decentralization to local authorities and privatization, whereby increasingly control over natural resources was assigned to private actors or self-governing communities.
