Subject(s): Natural resources, Communal in India in Management. -- Common property regime : Property right, common property resources, open access resources -- Dimensions of common property land resources in India :Land , forest and wasteland resources -- Dimensions of access to common property resources : Water resources, fishery resources, biomes and biodiversity resources, CPRs -- Common property resources, private property resources and livelihood : CPR-PPR linkage, community labour, livelihood linkage, inter-generational equity, sustainable harvesting and carrying capacity of CPRs, sustainable rate, fishing from Karnataka -- Theories of CPR management- collective action, participation and evolution : institutions for pooling private resources -- Existing institutions to manage CPRs in India -- Political economy of CPRs - investment and design of management and legal strategies : Investment patterns of CPR and wasteland programmes, design of CPR revival programmes, legal status of common property management in India, political economy to manage CPRs -- Revenue land as commons- the case of national tree grows cooperative federation : Institutional building in villages, NTGCF growth, case study of Mallenahally village TGCS in Karnataka, case study of sarnal tree growers cooperative society in Gujarat -- watershed development on forest lands- case of sukhomajrians : Cost- benefit model of participatory development -- Institution of creating CPRs out of PPRs- case of chakriya vikas pranali -- Water as CPR- cases of traditional systems, community management, and sharing principles : Irrigation system, institutions specifically addressed at sharing of water