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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons

Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993

"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...

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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?

Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002

"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …

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Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective

Anderies, John M.; Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor - 2004

"What makes social-ecological systems robust? In this paper we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that helps to identify potential...

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Optimality, Sub-optimality, Nirvana, and Transaction Costs Foraging on the Commons

Feeny, David - 1995

Published as Feeny, David, "Sub-Optimality and Transaction Costs on the Commons," in Edna Tusak Loehman and D. Marc Kilgour (eds.), Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1998), 124-141. "Much of the literature on the...

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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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Who, What, When, Why: Resource Economics Before the Fall

Wiener, Jonathan B. - 1998

From Page 1:"First, please note that this is a very informal version of an essay called 'Property, Agency, Time … microeconomic theory to these fundamental questions about resource management practises 'before the fall'. The essential argument is …

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Globalized Forest-Products: Commodification of Matsutake Mushroom in Tibetan Villages Yunnan Province, Southwest China

He, Jun - 2004

"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...

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The Exchange Commons

Liebenau, Jonathan; de Fontenay, Alain Bourdeau - 2006

"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...

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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes

Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000

ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …

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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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