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Using sociological institutionalism the three articles constituting this dissertation scrutinize the relationship between organizations and their (social) environment at different levels of analysis and in the context of specific research questions. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in...
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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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social and ecologicalperformance of Chilean MAs, by applying TURFs, commons and co-managementtheory to two cases: MAs …, a system with multiplespeciesmanaging MAs could be promoted as well. Finally, to enhance theory of commons, co …
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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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Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
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institution ProCredit Ecuador is merged with the monthly data of seismic activity and explosions of the volcano Tungurahua in … Ecuador from 2001 to 2006. Results indicate that new clients are less likely to receive a loan after the shock, but old … der kombinierten Auswertung von seismischen Daten des Vulkans Tungurahua in Ecuador und der Kundendatenbank einer …
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aggregate economic activity using data from Ecuador and Chile. …
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Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the …
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