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Seasoning a Monopsonic Processor for Collective Action amongst Pepper Producers in Costa Rica

Saenz-Segura, Fernando J.F.; Schipper, Robert A.; … - 2006

The small-scale pepper producers in the El Roble settlement Costa Rica face a monopsonistic market. Only one processing firm is buying the fresh pepper bunches. The processor has all bargaining power to decide on the price paid to the farmers and the quality selection criteria. The rejection...

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Private Exchange and Social Capital: Multiple Functions of Common Property Regimes in Haiti

White, T. Anderson - 1996

"A great challenge facing CPR enthusiasts today is understanding the conditions in which CPRs can be successful. Meeting this challenge requires understanding when and why individuals choose to create and maintain CPRs. Research in this domain often focuses on the relationship between individual...

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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

Asian countries. Both approaches were used to understand people's behaviour towards natural resource management or different … behaviour is observed over a long time period, experimental games might only represent a snapshot of the situation in the … baseline behaviour but also the largest deviation from observed real-world behaviour in action research." …

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The Conditions for Successful Collective Action Regarding Common Pool Resources: Examples and Implications for Global Cooperation

Libecap, Gary D. - 1993

"The purpose of this paper is to summarize some of the bargaining issues involved in collective action to address local common-pool problems and to illustrate them in three empirical cases. The importance of riming or the sequence of coalition building and the heterogeneity of the participant's...

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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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Under What Conditions are Decentralized Solutions to Collective Action Problems Likely?

Maier-Rigaud, Frank - 2000

"The paper outlines conditions under which decentralized approaches are likely to succeed in solving collective action problems. Criteria that render successful decentralized collective action more likely have mainly been developed in the Common Pool Resource (CPR) and International Relations...

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Decentralized Natural Resource Management: Equity Impacts on Groundwater Recharge through JFPM in India

Patil, Vikram; Chandrakanth, M.G.; Gangadharappa, N. R. - 2011

"This study evaluates the economic impact of Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) an institutional innovation with decentralized planning process. This has enabled to manage forests and water at local level through collective action of farmers with the help of the line Departments...

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Organizational Development and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Central Honduras

Pender, John; Scherr, Sara J. - 2002

"The determinants of local organizational density and the impacts of local and external organizations on collective and private natural resource management decisions are investigated based on a survey of 48 villages in central Honduras. Factors positively associated with local organizational...

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It Works in Practice. Does It Work in Theory?

Moir, Robert - 1998

"In 1968, Hardin argued that all commonly-owned resources would tragically be depleted unless private ownership was granted. There are many case studies which prove Hardin wrong. Common-pool resources have been managed with success. However, this success does not imply (as some believe) that...

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Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Over-Time Analysis of Five Communities in Southern Indiana

Fleischman, Forrest; Boenning, Kinga; Daedlow, Katrin; … - 2009

"In this paper we utilize Ostrom's (2007) diagnostic framework for socio-ecological systems to examine the factors that contribute to social responses to disturbances in a set of five Indiana, USA intentional communities over a fifteen year time frame. We argue that the concept of robustness is...

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