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Ideally, common property can adapt to particularities in the social and physical environment to create environmentally sustainable regimes. In practice, common fuelwood foraging has been subject to numerous problems intimaly linked to the historically changing role of common property. Schematic histories of fuelwood and forests in Europe and Java illustrate how common property systems have been undermined, and the different resource implications their dissolutions can have. Both cases indicate that fuelwood problems may be best interpreted within the rubric of subsistence foraging and the decline of common property, rather than that of energy shortage and tree mismanagement.