Drawing together studies undertaken in the decade following Indonesia's rapid political reforms, this book explores the forces reconfiguring resource governance, providing a rare in-depth view from the grassroots up of the dynamics shaping outcomes in different contexts. Original case studies from across this diverse cultural and ecological archipelago focus on the most significant resource sectors - agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism. The cases demonstrate the challenges and the dynamics at play in efforts to build the 'commonweal' - sites of shared welfare and common interest - in a context driven by decentralizing and globalising forces.Discussions of environmental management in the 'commons' seek to understand particular societies in terms of how they can support particular policy objectives. In contrast, Warren, McCarthy and colleagues show how policy and practice need to take into account the complexity and fluidity of the social arrangements that - interweaving values, resource rights and ideas of economic justice with identity - ultimately determine sustainability. This volume provides new insights to students, scholars, policy professionals and practitioners interested in governance and natural resource management.