Both rice production and fish culture in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam have a close mutual relationship with the use of water and land resources. First, they are competitive in the use of land and water. Second, rice production discharges pesticides into water bodies causing an external cost to fish...

Notable in strategic management research is a paradigm shift from industry/marketfactors as determinants of competitive strategy to a resource-based view. This studyfocuses on the extent to which firms in the reinsurance industry use resources forstrategic positioning and differentiation. A...

Throughout the world land use and fragmentation are among the major causes of the de-struction of habitats and the resulting loss of biological diversity. Road use in general and road haulage in particular significantly and still increasingly evoke both causes. Largely due to biodiversity's high...

Many of Indonesia's natural resources are degraded due to over-utilization. Examples are over-exploitation of fish stocks or non-timber forest resources. In many cases "commons dilemmas" regularly occurring in open access situations are responsible for the difficulties in natural resource...

"The analysis of the management of natural resources has traditionally been based on the assumption that agents are free-riders. Under this assumption there is no scope for voluntary environmental initiatives, and public intervention or privatization is considered necessary to prevent...