TY - JOUR AU - Ojanen, Maria AU - Miller, Daniel C. AU - Zhou, Wen AU - Mshale, Baruani AU - Mwangi, Esther AU - Petrokofsky, Gillian PY - 2014 DA - 2014/09/19 TI - What are the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in forests, fisheries and rangelands? a systematic review protocol JO - Environmental Evidence SP - 19 VL - 3 IS - 1 AB - Property rights to natural resources comprise a major policy instrument for those seeking to advance sustainable resource use and conservation. Despite decades of policy experimentation and empirical research, however, systematic understanding of the influence of different property rights regimes on resource and environmental outcomes remains elusive. A large, diverse, and rapidly growing body of literature investigates the links between property regimes and environmental outcomes, but has not synthesized theoretical and policy insights within specific resource systems and especially across resource systems. Here we provide a protocol for conducting a systematic review that will gather empirical evidence over the past two decades on this topic. We will ask the following questions: a) What are the environmental impacts of different property regimes in forests, fisheries, and rangelands? b) Which property regimes are associated with positive, negative or neutral environmental outcomes? c) How do those environmental outcomes compare within and across resource systems and regions? SN - 2047-2382 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2382-3-19 DO - 10.1186/2047-2382-3-19 ID - Ojanen2014 ER -