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The Survival of the Conformist: Social Pressure and Renewable Resource Management

Tavoni, Alessandro; Schlüter, Maja; Levin, Simon - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper examines the role of pro-social behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling resource stock dynamics with social dynamics concerning compliance to a social norm prescribing...

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Profiling Tourists for Balanced Utilization of Tourism-Based Resources in Kenya

Odunga, Pius; Folmer, Henk - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Kenya is predominantly a nature-based tourism destination with wildlife (concentrated in the southern part of the …

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Wildlife Conservation and Management in Kenya: Towards a Co-management Approach

Mburu, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

theoretical advancements on co-management and drawing on empirical studies conducted in Kenya, the paper examines how successful … Kenya. …

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Value Through Diversity: Microfinance and Islamic Finance and Global Banking

Ferro, Nicoletta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

interest of western banks in new models of finance, particularly Islamic finance and microfinance. This new trend is not only … primarily outlines that many elements of microfinance could be considered consistent with the broader goals of Islamic banking …

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Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change

Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …

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E-participation: Social Capital and the Internet

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

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The Transmission of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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The Decision to Migrate and Social Capital: Evidence from Albania

Cattaneo, Cristina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The objective of this paper is to determine whether the participation in social organizations, which are commonly defined as a form of social capital, represents a complement or a substitute with respect to emigration. The nature of the relationship depends on the motivations behind the two...

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