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Optimality, Sub-optimality, Nirvana, and Transaction Costs Foraging on the Commons

Feeny, David - 1995

Published as Feeny, David, "Sub-Optimality and Transaction Costs on the Commons," in Edna Tusak Loehman and D. Marc Kilgour (eds.), Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1998), 124-141. "Much of the literature on the...

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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes

Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000

ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …

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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance

Watt, Helen Payne - 2000

"Many of what we consider to be valuable natural assets existed for millennia without our ever being aware of their usefulness or value. For example, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb pollution has only become useful to us in recent decades as the limits of that environmental service have...

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Enabling Sustainability: Hierarchical Need-Based Framework for Promoting Sustainable Data Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Yawson, David O.; Armah, Frederick A.; Pappoe, Alex N.M. - 2009

brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly … governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory, though well-known, is somewhat new in geospatial circles; this is where … be an imposing challenge. One of the key reasons for this could be the absence of a widely accepted psychological theory …

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Reduncancy and Diversity in Governing and Managing Common-Pool Resources

Low, Bobbi S.; Ostrom, Elinor; Simon, Carl P.; Wilson, James - 2000

genetic algorithms, condercet jury theory, and regulatory regimes. Both empirical data and models suggest that a simple …

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ARDI: A Co-construction Method for Participatory Modeling in Natural Resources Management

Etienne, Michel; Du Toit, Derick R.; Pollard, Sharon - 2011

"The outcomes of a series of tests of the ARDI (Actors, Resources, Dynamics, and Interactions) method in complex cases or conflict-ridden situations is presented. ARDI is part of a companion modeling approach that makes it possible to engage a broad spectrum of stakeholders in the design and...

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