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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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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance

Watt, Helen Payne - 2000

"Many of what we consider to be valuable natural assets existed for millennia without our ever being aware of their usefulness or value. For example, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb pollution has only become useful to us in recent decades as the limits of that environmental service have...

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The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems

Gardner, Roy; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 1987

Published as:"The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems," Rationality and Society 2(3), July 1990, 335-358."A large, multidisciplinary literature focuses on the problems occurring when multiple individuals concurrently use common-pool resources such as fisheries, grazing areas, airsheds, oil...

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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology

Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995

collect more money from the experimenter than noncooperative game theory predicts. As we interpret it, subject behavior in …

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Enabling Sustainability: Hierarchical Need-Based Framework for Promoting Sustainable Data Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Yawson, David O.; Armah, Frederick A.; Pappoe, Alex N.M. - 2009

brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly … governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory, though well-known, is somewhat new in geospatial circles; this is where … be an imposing challenge. One of the key reasons for this could be the absence of a widely accepted psychological theory …

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Preference Under Risk: An Application of Nonexpected Utility Theories

Loehman, Edna T. - 1992

risk aversion and models of the utility function. One particular theory (expected utility with rank dependent probabilities …

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Production Function and Institutions

Sengupta, Nirmal - 1998

"The classical economists were primarily engaged in analysis of the wonder that is production. The marginalists, while laying the foundation of mathematical economics, shifted its focus to rational behavior of a single consumer, presumably because there they found a problem readily amenable to...

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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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The Old Theory of Economic Policy and the New Institutionalism

Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1996

Economic Policy: Theory and Design, which deeply affected and reinforced the way economists thought about the policy … targets of policy. The theory of economic policy used general assumptions about the structure of economic systems to derive …

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Reduncancy and Diversity in Governing and Managing Common-Pool Resources

Low, Bobbi S.; Ostrom, Elinor; Simon, Carl P.; Wilson, James - 2000

genetic algorithms, condercet jury theory, and regulatory regimes. Both empirical data and models suggest that a simple …

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