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The scope for collective action in a large groundwater basin: an institutional analysis of aquifer governance in Western Australia

Skurray, James H. - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

Previously titled: The scope for institutional autonomy in a large groundwater basin: the potential for collective action in Western Australia

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Potential approaches to the management of third-party impacts from groundwater transfers: Managing externalities from groundwater trading

Skurray, James H.; Pannell, David J. - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

Groundwater extraction can have varied and diffuse effects. Negative external effects may include costs imposed on other groundwater users and on surrounding ecosystems. Environmental damages are commonly not reflected in market transactions. Groundwater transfers have the potential to cause...

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Hydrological challenges to groundwater trading: lessons from south-west Western Australia

Skurray, James H.; Roberts, E.J.; Pannell, David J. - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

Perth, Western Australia (pop. 1.6m) derives 60% of its public water supply from the Gnangara groundwater system (GGS). Horticulture, domestic self-supply, and municipal parks are other major consumers of GGS groundwater. The system supports important wetlands and groundwater-dependent...

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African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks For Rural Water Management in Africa: an international workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005.

Butterworth, John; Juma, Ibrahim - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2005

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Proceedings of the Privatization Workshop held in Sudan, 1996.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1996

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Why Are Women Less Democratic Than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - HAL - 2013

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...

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Mesures techniques, Choix Institutionnels et Equité dans l'usage d'une ressource commune : Le cas du littoral marseillais

Ami, Dominique; Rouchier, Juliette - HAL - 2014

remises en cause alors que les règles constitutionnelles permettant de penser la dynamique des institutions semblent avoir …

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Protests and Beliefs in Social Coordination in Africa

Sangnier, Marc; Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2013

aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect … information on the leader's type and the underlying capacity of institutions to monitor her. A misbehavior is then interpreted as …

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Local Institutions and Armed Group Presence in Colombia

Gáfaro, Margarita; Ibáñez, Ana Maria; Justino, Patricia - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in … organizations, with a particularly strong effect on political organizations. This strengthening of local institutions during wartime …

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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014

We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less e_ective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a...

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