摘要：Property rights are fundamental institutions that set the rules for who is allowed to use,manage, and control natural resources. Though the literature on property rights over naturalresources is well developed. However, our understanding of the ways by which propertyrights govern actors’ ability to obtain ecosystem services provided by these natural resourcesremains under-explored. Using the Adirondack Park, USA, as a case study, we developa framework that pairs property rights theory with spatial analysis to show who can obtainecosystem services across this landscape. We look at rights over three ecosystem services:timber, drinking water and recreational fishing. We show that property rights combined withecosystem service flow affect who can receive ecosystem services, and where, across thelandscape. Our results demonstrate that property rights can play a pivotal role in who canobtain ecosystem services across landscapes. However, more work is required to model thesupply and flow of ecosystems services, and to connect these to property rights to fullycapture the interactions occurring between property rights and ecosystem services, and howthey influence who can obtain these services. This paper contributes to the literature byshowing how property rights influence who the potential beneficiaries of ecosystem servicesare under different property rights regimes.
