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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 integrity. Managing common resources needs a decision making process that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468461
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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance
Watt, Helen Payne - 2000
that are inequitable and unsustainable prevail and threaten the health of the asset itself and the community of owners. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468379
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468313
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Evidence Based Farmer Decision Models to Assess the Potential for Multiple Benefit Carbon Trading
Ward, John R.; Bryan, B.A.; Crossman, N.D.; King, D. - 2008
"Planning efforts in the SA Murray Darling Basin (SAMDB) have focused on the revegetation of degraded, privately held agricultural land, using locally native species, to meet prescribed resource condition targets of increased biodiversity, carbon sequestration, salinity and wind erosion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468316
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The Chimera of 'Sustainable Development'
Beckerman, Wilfred - 2007
sections of the global community, whose urgent needs are here and now." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468319
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Cost–Benefit Analyses of Mitigation Measures Aimed at Reducing Collisions with Large Ungulates in the United States and Canada: A Decision Support Tool
Huijser, Marcel P.; Duffield, John W.; Clevenger, Anthony P. - 2009
"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–,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468322
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Community-based Enterprises: The Significance of Horizontal and Vertical Institutional Linkages
Berkes, Fikret; Seixas, Cristiana Simao - 2008
find and reward entrepreneurship cases that seek to reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity at the same time. The short … local entrepreneurship cases that seem to be playing successfully at the global level? "Here we focus on partnerships … local community to provide a range of services and support functions, including raising start-up funds; institution building …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468325
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468335
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Strategic Issues in Training and Development in the IT Service Industry at Kolkata Region: A Study
Das, Anup Kumar - 2005
"Present study deals with training and development strategies in IT service industry in Kolkata region. This study highlighted present trends and common practices in training and development activities in specific, and in human resources management in general. InfoTech sector is a thrust area of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468339
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Studying the Commons with Economic Field Experiments and Action Research: Lessons Learned and Challenges that Need to be Overcome
Vollan, Bjørn; Werthmann, Christine; Kirk, Michael - 2008
institutional settings in community-based projects. We critically reflect the strengths and weaknesses of different types of framed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468343