Coman

Although the type of water allocation problems of concern to Coman have frequently been addressed by common-property regimes of collective management, less easily governed problems of open-access are associated with growing concerns about air and water quality, hazardous waste, species extinction, maintenance of stratospheric ozone, and -- most recently -- the stability of the global climate in the face of the steady accumulation of greenhouse gases.

Robert Stavins: Reflecting on a Century of Progress and Problems Robert Stavins 2011

As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the problem of the commons is more important to our lives -- and more central to economics -- than a century ago when the first issue of the American Economic Review appeared, with an examination by Professor Katharine Coman of Wellesley College of "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation" 1911.

Robert Stavins: Reflecting on a Century of Progress and Problems Robert Stavins 2011

Problems of the commons are both more widespread and more important today than when Coman wrote about unsettled problems in the first issue of the American Economic Review 100 years ago.

Robert Stavins: Reflecting on a Century of Progress and Problems Robert Stavins 2011

If Coman had his way, we'd probably still have wildly underassessed homes on St. Charles, and millage rates would still be in the 170's (or higher), rather than being reduced down into the 130's.

Your Right Hand Thief 2007

Imagine if, say, crony assessor Al Coman had been elected instead of Marshall.

Your Right Hand Thief 2007

Imagine if, say, crony assessor Al Coman had been elected instead of Marshall.

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

If Coman had his way, we'd probably still have wildly underassessed homes on St. Charles, and millage rates would still be in the 170's (or higher), rather than being reduced down into the 130's.

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

On board were sieur de Mons as her commander, Captain Timothée le Barbier of Le Havre, her master, Louis Coman as pilot, and Champlain.36

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

On board were sieur de Mons as her commander, Captain Timothée le Barbier of Le Havre, her master, Louis Coman as pilot, and Champlain.36

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Most of the Ludwigg properties on the southern Avalon were disposed of in the eighteenth century, but at least one remained in the family, for at Elizabeth's death in 1800, she left a fishing room, stage, and flake at Ferryland to William Coman, a merchant from Waterford City operating on the southern Avalon. 37

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