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Beyond Politics: Strategies to Achieve Community Goals
Azous, Amanda - 1998
From the Author's Paper:"Effective management of community resources relies on considering economic vitality …, ecological health and community quality of life. Too often, decisions are made which ultimately undermine a community's identity …, resulting in losses and not gains towards community integrity. Managing common resources needs a decision making process that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468461
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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance
Watt, Helen Payne - 2000
that are inequitable and unsustainable prevail and threaten the health of the asset itself and the community of owners. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468379
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Evidence Based Farmer Decision Models to Assess the Potential for Multiple Benefit Carbon Trading
Ward, John R.; Bryan, B.A.; Crossman, N.D.; King, D. - 2008
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468316
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Community-based Enterprises: The Significance of Horizontal and Vertical Institutional Linkages
Berkes, Fikret; Seixas, Cristiana Simao - 2008
find and reward entrepreneurship cases that seek to reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity at the same time. The short … local entrepreneurship cases that seem to be playing successfully at the global level? "Here we focus on partnerships … local community to provide a range of services and support functions, including raising start-up funds; institution building …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468325
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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
institutional settings in community-based projects. We critically reflect the strengths and weaknesses of different types of framed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468343
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Conflicts and Value Trade-Offs in the Management of Common Property: Insights from Land Use Studies in the Australian Sugar Industry
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak - 2001
production and conservation. In addressing the needs for preserving environmental quality as a common property and agricultural … approach to manage CPRs in the best interest of the community. The role of institutional innovations to foster community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468381
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Perspectives on Nature, Conservation and Management: The Brazilian Eucalyptus Monoculture through the Eyes of Conservationist NGOs and Local Communities
Campello do Amaral Mello, Cecelia - 2004
From p. 1-2: "Eucalyptus cultivation and the cellulose industry are expanding fast in impoverished areas of Brazil, as a result of the global demand for cellulose, governmental economic incentives and the absence of economic-ecological zoning. Areas formerly devoted to family-farming and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468382
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468400
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Dynamics of Formal and Informal Responses to Shocks. Empirical Evidence from Cameroon
Azibo, Roland Balgah; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - 2011
"Increasing upsurge of extreme natural shocks jeopardizes the capacity of traditional social protection mechanisms to effectively manage risks and associated shocks. This paper analyzes the differentiated dynamics of formal and informal response mechanisms to shocks of surviving households of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468410
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Communication in a Commons: Cooperation Without External Enforcement
Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 1989
"The experiments reported in this paper provide strong evidence for the power of face-to-face communication in a repeated common-pool resource environment where decisions are made privately. When communication was provided as a 'costless' institution, players successfully used the opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468418