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The clear definition of property rights is not a sufficient condition to prevent congestion effects in commons. In this …
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The stories we tell about "the economy" in discourses of regional economic development play an active role in shaping our economic realities. The construction of more equitable, democratic and ecologically-sound economies must involve an interrogation of our assumptions about what “the...
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in the late 1990s institutionalised commons – Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs), which since then have had … varying results, especially in economic terms. Theories on the commons advocate that the economic returns of TURFs should 1 …
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, a system with multiplespeciesmanaging MAs could be promoted as well. Finally, to enhance theory of commons, co … social and ecologicalperformance of Chilean MAs, by applying TURFs, commons and co-managementtheory to two cases: MAs …
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The formation of harvest cooperatives has recently generated considerable interest among fishermen and regulators as an alternative to other rights-based systems such as individual transferable quotas. Many consider the promotion of self-governance to be essential to more sustainable, equitable...
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instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint … consumers should obtain the same rate of return from their (direct or indirect) contributors towards the fruits of the commons." …
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"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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of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … the predicted tragedy of the commons." …
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"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … more traditional commons tragedies, deserves more attention than has thus far been given by CPR scholars. The elaboration …
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