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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Common Property"”.
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To defend ourselves: common property management of forests in northern Thailand
… as important to integrate customary law, such as common property rights to forest lands, into the framework of national policy. However, while this is being recognized on a theoretical level, there have been few real attempts to incorporate customary land rights into national law. The purpose of …
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The Common property approach : a new paradigm in the economics of the environment
The phenomena usually described as externalities play a major role in a number of areas of economic analysis. The most notable of these is environmental economics, but externalities are also significant in areas such as agriculture, health, and transport economics. When the related area of public …
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Management of common property resources : intertemporal exploitation of village dams in Sri Lanka
Village dams in Sri Lanka are owned in common by the villagers and the water in them is used for in-situ public good purposes and for the irrigation of their private rice lands. The water resource of the dam is replenished every year by the runoff from its catchment during the monsoons. Within a …
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The Common property approach : a new paradigm in the economics of the environment
The phenomena usually described as externalities play a major role in a number of areas of economic analysis. The most notable of these is environmental economics, but externalities are also significant in areas such as agriculture, health, and transport economics. When the related area of public …
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Management of common property resources : intertemporal exploitation of village dams in Sri Lanka
Village dams in Sri Lanka are owned in common by the villagers and the water in them is used for in-situ public good purposes and for the irrigation of their private rice lands. The water resource of the dam is replenished every year by the runoff from its catchment during the monsoons. Within a …
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Local-level institutions and common property resource management in the Khorixas regional constituency, Namibia
In 1993, the Government of Namibia formulated the Rural Water Supply Policy which provides for the establishment of the Water Point Committees to take responsibility for management of water supply in rural areas. By establishing these local-level water management institutions, policy makers in …
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Optimal Management of a Common Property Pest Under Risk: An Application to the Corn Rootworm
… The rootworm population is considered to be a common property resource with an exhaustible stock of susceptibility to insecticide. A second objective of the study is to evaluate the potential benefits of a regional approach to corn rootworm control, internalizing the externalities of …
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Common property regimes and land reform in Namibia : a case study of Skoonheid, Omaheke region
… It explores this question and more specifically common property resource management regimes using Skoonheid Resettlement Project in the Omaheke Region in Namibia as a case study. This study was born out of a Retrospective Assessment of the Environmental Implications of Resettlement in Namibia, …
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Interactions between community traditions and geospatial technology in natural resource management: case studies from common property regimes in rural southern Mexico
Issues related to improving community participation and the effectiveness of green economy instruments are central to current debates regarding progress towards sustainable development. Information technology, such as Geographic Information Systems, may be able to play an important role in …
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Decentralising forest management in India: the case of Van Panchayats in Kumaun.
… My focus in this respect is on a system of common property forest management in the Central Himalaya, and on two villages in District Kurnaun in particular. In chapter 1 argue that the content of agenda is determined by two interest groups, the government and 'a social forestry interest …
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Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda
… of `cultural stakes' in the conservation of common property resources that are more often that not at loggerheads with `economic stakes'.</p><p>The arguments in this dissertation are built over and contribute to three bodies of anthropological research: economic anthropology engaged in the …
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Genealogies and narratives of San authenticities the ?Khomani San land claim in the southern Kalahari
… management (CBNRM), identity and ethnicity, and common property debates. The study begins with a brief introduction to the richly textured and highly contested debates and analytical issues concerning the San. Among other things, this first part of the thesis deals with naming, the alleged …
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Dead Fish: How Two Fish Kills in the White River Demonstrate Changes in the Historic Protection of the Commons in Indiana
Common property resources, often shortened to the commons, are natural resources meant to be accessible by all. In Indiana, an important part of the commons is the White River. Although the concept of the commons entered American intellectual spheres through the earliest European settlements and …
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Geometric methods of accelerating triangle-inequality-based k-means.
… the algorithms when the bounds do not help. The common property of those two proposals is that they require only calculations that are done once per iteration. We also solve a problem that is left as open in the heap algorithm.
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A study of the development of sectional titles in South Africa since the promulgation of the Act in 1971
… Sectional Titles is a new innovation to the property market of South Africa because it is different from the normal situation whereby a person can now buy a section of a building whereas previously a person could only buy a plot of ground with or without a building on it. In other words, the …
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Women and land: acces to and use of land and natural resources in the communal areas of rural South Africa
… land-based activities, and that the value of common property resources associated with land, for example livestock production, crop production, and natural resource harvesting is often overlooked as an important asset of poor rural communities. The importance of these landbased livelihoods …
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Village properties, state negotiations: Decentralization and territorialization of Senegal's forests
… has fixed forests in place and privatized common-property, while also disrupting the presumption of separate domains of “state” and “community”. Rather than creating territories governed by communities, the creation of village forests drew together customary authorities, local politicians, …
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Inhabiting the world : architecture, urbanism, and the global moral-politics of Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin
… conflict, and trade, as well as their design of common property at Castlecrag, this study charts the emergence of a non-nationalist alternative to empire. Concomitantly, it argues that the conceptual sources and motivations for this alternative, global community were far removed from instrumental …
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Mechanism of transmissible gastroenteritis virus nsp1-mediated translation inhibition
… (nsp1) proteins of several coronaviruses share a common property to inhibit host gene expression, but use different mechanisms to exert this function. Unlike the nsp1 protein of SARS coronavirus, a group 2b betacoronavirus, the nsp1 protein of transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), an …
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