1. Institutions and Sustainability: Introduction and Overview.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Konrad Hagedorn’s Contributions to Institutional Analysis.- 1.2.1 The Politics of Agricultural and Environmental Relations.- 1.2.2 Developing Institutions to Govern Sustainability.- 1.2.3 Managing Common Pool Resources.- 1.2.4 The Future of Institutional Analysis.- 1.3 The Contributed Papers.- 1.3.1 Political Economy of Economic Development and Agricultural Policy.- 1.3.2 Institutions, Governance and Sustainability.- 1.3 3 Property Rights, Collective Action and Natural Resources.- 1.3.4 Challenges to Institutional Analysis Towards Sustainability.- 1.4 Looking Ahead Towards Sustainable Futures.- References.- Part I: Political Economy of Economic Development and Agricultural Policy.- 2. The Political Economy of Agricultural Reform in Transition Countries.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Why did the Communist Party Reform in China, but not in the Soviet Union?- 2.3 Causes of Differences in Grassroots Support.- 2.4. Experimentation and Reforms.- 2.5 Why were Agricultural Reforms Implemented Gradually in China, but Simultaneously in Many CEE and the CIS States?- 2.6 What are the Causes for the Differences in Land and Farm Reform Strategies?- 2.7 Concluding Comments.- References.- 3. Make Law, Not War? On the Political Economy of Violence and Appropriation.- 3.1 Hobbes and the Political Economy of Violence.- 3.2 The Economics of Violence: How Order Emerges from Predation.- 3.3 The Anthropology of Violence.- 3.4 Ethnographies of Violence and Order.- 3.5 Conclusion.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 4. A Marathon Rather than a Sprint: The Reform of the Farmers’ Pension System in Germany and its Impacts.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Reform in the 1980s: Proposals and Resistance.- 4.2.1 The First Attempt at Reform.- 4.2.2 Redefinition of the Reform Problem (1984–1987).- 4.2.3 The Second Attempt at Reform (1987–1990).- 4.3 The Agricultural Social Security Reform Law (ASRG).-4.3.1 The Decision-making Process and its Rationale.- 4.3.2 Goals and Main Features of the Reform Law.- 4.4 Effects of the Reform.- 4.4.1 Effect on Social Security.- 4.4.2 Stabilisation Effects on Costs and Contributions.- 4.4.3 Distribution Effects.- 4.5 Reform Evaluation and Perspectives.- References.- 5. Complex Policy Choices Regarding Agricultural Externalities: Efficiency, Equity and Acceptability.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Types of Agricultural Externalities.- 5.3 Complications Arising from Thresholds in the Economic Effects of Externalities.- 5.3.1 A Paretian Relevant Externality.- 5.3.2 An Infra-marginal Externality which is Paretian Relevant for Policy and Which Complicates Social Decisions.- 5.3.3 Some Externalities are Paretian Irrelevant.- 5.3.4. Further Complications.- 5.4 Adverse Selection as an Unfavourable Externality and Possible Threshold Effects.- 5.5 Environmental Externalities and Sustainability.- 5.6 Equity, Efficiency and Agricultural Externalities.- 5.7 Transaction Costs Involved in Public Regulation of Externalities.- 5.8 The Political Acceptability of Economic Policies.- 5.9 Property Rights in Agricultural Genetic Material and Externalities.- 5.10 Concluding Comments.- Acknowledgements.- References.- Part II: Institutions, Governance and Sustainability.- 6. Multi-Level Governance and Natural Resource Management: The Challenges of Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Current Conceptions of Natural Resource Systems.- 6.3 Complexity and Uncertainty in Adaptive Systems.- 6.3.1 Differing Rates of Change.- 6.3.2 Scale Differences and Near Decomposability.- 6.3.3 Disturbance Processes.- 6.4 Implications for the Approach to Management.- 6.5 Implications for the Design of Institutional Arrangements.- 6.5.1 Recognition of Scale Diversity.- 6.5.2 Reducing Error Proneness and Promoting Learning.- 6.5.3 Recognizing the Capabilities and Limitations of Human Beings.- 6.5.4 Multiple Management Goal.- 6.5.5 Recogn
