"While the conditions of production give some guidance to what factor groupings are desirable ceteris paribus, they do not determine the boundaries of a neoclassical firm (a legal entity with a residual claimant). Indeed, they could just as well be related to other groupings, such as...

"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...

"Within the global framework of Sustainable Development, NTFPs (Non-timber Forest Products) draw a great deal of attentions from scholars. However, previous literature and research has mainly placed emphasis on how commercialization of NTFPs contributed to forest management and local livelihood...

"Water is central to the economy of Swaziland as it contributes significantly to GDP via agriculture export earnings and basic livelihoods of people. Infrastructure like roads, electricity and potable water are expanding around this sector. The health sector and communications are also expanding...

"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...

"While the Icelandic fisheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for almost a decade and the fisheries sector seems to be performing well in economical terms, there is still no consensus about quota issue. Lately, the difficult situation of fisheries communities short of...

"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as...

From Introduction: "Agreements between forest companies and forest communities may offer potential solutions to one or more of the conflicting objectives the global forest sector has been required to face. Some studies (Mayers and Vermeulen, 2002; Scherr, White, and Kaimowitz, 2003) have identified...

"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...

"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a number of significant factors for robust CPR management. Nevertheless, few authors have pursued the matter in greater depth other than to assert that if the salience or...