In this paper we investigate the reasons why integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) fail to achieve their conservation goals. We develop a bio-economic model of open access land and wildlife exploitation, which is consistent with many farming and hunting societies living in...

Advocates of tenure emphasize its contributions to professional excellence and the quest for truth. These benefits are more important than individual benefits or the costs to those who fail to gain tenure or to universities that lose their flexibility. Critics argue that tenure creates excessive...

This paper uses a model combining three strands within the bioeconomic literature: spatial management, pest and nuisance management, and enforcement under different ecological dispersal processes (i.e., sink-source versus density-dependent) to illustrate the dual management policy (i.e.,...