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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes

Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … conserving biodiversity is context-specific. "This paper addresses the question of where to vest different forms of authority to … ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …

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Structural Modeling of Marine Reserves with Bayesian Estimation

Smith, Martin D.; Zhang, Junjie; Coleman, Felicia C. - 2007

Structural models can assess the effectiveness of fishery management prospectively and retrospectively. However, when only fishery-dependent data are available, structural econometric models are highly nonlinear in the parameters, and maximum likelihood and other extremum-based estimators can...

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Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt

Atwell, Ryan C.; Schulte, Lisa A.; Westphal, Lynne M. - 2009

"In the last 200 yr, more than 80% of the land in the U.S. Corn Belt agro-ecosystem has been converted from natural perennial vegetation to intensive agricultural production of row crops. Despite research showing how re-integration of perennial vegetation, e.g., cover crops, pasture, riparian...

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Measuring Transaction Costs of Fisheries Co-Management

Kuperan, K.; Mustapha, Nik; Abdullah, Nik Mustapha Raja; … - 1998

"Fisheries co-management as an alternative to centralised command and control fisheries management is often suggested as a solution to the problems of fisheries resource use conflicts and overexploitation. Various researchers have talked of the importance of studying the role of transaction...

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Community Based Management Mechanism of Forest Resources: A Case Study of Biashuijiang National Natural Reserve, China

Ting, Zhu; Haiyun, Chen; Shivakoti, Ganesh P. - 2011

"Research on community-based co-management mechanism of forest resources is essentially an academic research proposition of mechanism design on common property resource. Although a group of community-based co-management (CBCM) mechanisms in forest resources has been constructed in Chinese...

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Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Preferences, and Values into Decision Making in Natural Resources Management

Lynam, Timothy; De Jong, Wil; Sheil, Douglas; … - 2007

"We survey and evaluate selected participatory tools that have been proven effective in natural resources management and research during our extensive experience with forest communities. We first establish a framework for our analysis by identifying a set of criteria for evaluating each tool....

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Factors Influencing Landowners' Participation in Wildlife Co-Management in Kenya

Mburu, John - 2002

"Co-management of wildlife and other natural resources has increasingly become important because it seeks to create negotiated agreements between state and local communities (other stakeholder groups may also be included) and therefore offers a possibility to overcome conflicts over resource...

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Common Property and Poverty: Fisheries Co-management in Malawi

Bland, Simon; Donda, Steven J. - 1995

"Malawi's economy is fragile, dominated mainly by the production end export of agricultural products. National development policy concentrates on growth through poverty alleviation and the fisheries sector has a key role to play through the provision of rural employment and, more importantly,...

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Network Governance of the Commons

Carlsson, Lars; Sandström, Annica - 2006

"The survival of the commons is closely associated with the potential to find ways to strengthen contemporary management systems, making them more responsive to a number of complexities, like the dynamics of ecosystems and related, but often fragmented, institutions. A discussion on the...

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Community-based Co-management Mechanism of Forest Resources: A Case Study of Baishuijiang National Natural Reserve, China

Ting, Zhu; Haiyun, Chen; Shivakoti, Ganesh P. - 2011

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