The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the major factors to form an autonomic common resource management organization. The empirical study consists of two cases of San-Ming and Wu-Lai river fishery conservation projects. Pertaining to the feasibility of common resources management projects, we summarize two conclusions.1. If a natural resource has a lower productivity, it is better to be managed by a common property regime rather than state and private regimes.2. Having a higher level of homogeneity, closure and demographic stability is only a necessary condition for common resource management; more important, leadership and energetic inputs from local elites as well as a support by major residents is a sufficient condition to manage common resource effectively.
