"Case-study analysis shows that long-lasting social–ecological systems have institutional arrangements regulating where, when, and how to appropriate resources instead of how much. Those cases testify to the importance of the fit between ecological and institutional dynamics. Experiments are...

"Wildlife–vehicle collisions, especially with deer (Odocoileus spp.), elk (Cervus elaphus), and moose (Alces alces) are numerous and have shown an increasing trend over the last several decades in the United States and Canada. We calculated the costs associated with the average deer–,...

"Over the past decade, 'Payments for Environmental Services' (PES) have received a great deal of attention as a natural-resource management approach. We propose a revised definition and framework for PES implementation that focuses on the use of positive incentives as the philosophy behind PES...

"Traditionally, benefits of common property arrangements arose from complementarity in resource use, which permitted multiple uses for several users. Today, common property resources (CPRs) represent quasi-public goods, featuring increasing rivalry in consumption. As the domain of uses widens...

"Increasing upsurge of extreme natural shocks jeopardizes the capacity of traditional social protection mechanisms to effectively manage risks and associated shocks. This paper analyzes the differentiated dynamics of formal and informal response mechanisms to shocks of surviving households of...

"This paper argues that for many traditional societies, the two property systems, sharing and common property, should be analysed together in order to understand their effects and their role. In some cases one of the property regimes alone might lead to inefficient outcomes, but the coexistence...

"Indonesian furniture accounts for almost 2% of the global wood furniture trade, which is valued at more than US $135 billion. In many countries, including Japan, European countries and Indonesia, women make decisions about selecting which furniture to buy. However, the role of women workers in...

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

"The determinants of local organizational density and the impacts of local and external organizations on collective and private natural resource management decisions are investigated based on a survey of 48 villages in central Honduras. Factors positively associated with local organizational...

From the Author's Paper:"Effective management of community resources relies on considering economic vitality, ecological health and community quality of life. Too often, decisions are made which ultimately undermine a community's identity, resulting in losses and not gains towards community...