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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002

"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...

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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...

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Introducing Ecological Dynamics into Common-Pool Resource Experiments

Janssen, Marco A. - 2010

"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...

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The Adaptive Decision-Making Process as a Tool for Integrated Natural Resource Management: Focus, Attitudes, and Approach

Lal, Padma; Lim-Applegate, Hazel; Scoccimarro, Michelle C. - 2001

"Integrated natural resource management (INRM) and its many closely related approaches are generally considered to be more effective than single-disciplinary approaches for managing the complex resource issues currently facing many countries. INRM approaches aim to integrate several disciplines...

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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002

Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...

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Visions of Alternative (Unpredictable) Futures and Their Use in Policy Analysis

Costanza, Robert - 2000

, one that can provide permanent prosperity within the biophysical constraints of the real world in a way that is fair and … applied to policy are in conflict more often over alternative visions of the world than purely 'scientific' disagreements … uncertainty about the nature of the world, its carrying capacity for humans, the impacts of climate change, and other aspects of …

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Governing Social-Ecological Systems

Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor; Tesfatsion, L.; … - 2006

"Social-ecological systems are complex adaptive systems where social and biophysical agents are interacting at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The main challenge for the study of governance of social-ecological systems is improving our understanding of the conditions under which...

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Beyond Politics: Strategies to Achieve Community Goals

Azous, Amanda - 1998

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...

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Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: Do Mergers Improve Managerial Performance in the Post-Merger Period?

Feroz, Ehsan H.; Kim, Sungsoo; Raab, Raymond L. - 2005

"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample …

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Network Governance of the Commons

Carlsson, Lars; Sandström, Annica - 2006

closely related to network governance and social network theory, than to political administrative hierarchy. However, so far …

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