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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Ostrom"”.
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Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda
<p>In 2009 Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize for her analysis of economic governance of the commons. Specifically, by challenging the conventional wisdom at the time, demonstrating how communities can successfully manage the common resources without any regulation by central authorities or …
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Kooperatív közszolgáltatások intézményi megközelítésben
… nem csak szűken az előállítás (Musgrave, 1959; Ostrom és Ostrom, 1977b) és nem csak a hatékonyság (Samuelson, 1954) kérdését érinti, hanem azt is, hogy milyen elvek, milyen értékek (Buchanan és Musgrave, 1999) és milyen morális megfontolások (Sandel, 2013) mentén állítjuk elő ezeket a javakat. …
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School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape
… Institutional Analysis and Design framework of Ostrom and colleagues (1990; 1994; 2005; 2009) as a means of benchmarking school management. The core components of the IAD framework are used to create a series of management indices for a sample of schools in the Western Cape. The paper finds, …
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Starting from the River Again. Community Processes to Regenerate Spoiled Ecosystems
… the way they relate with natural resources; (Ostrom 2009, Fischer 2009). Two detailed cases are presented: the Mississippi communities relating with the Delta-Yazoo River basin and Pascuagoula River basin, MS, U.S.A.; the Simeto communities relating with the Simeto River Valley, Sicily, Italy. …
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Making sense of public administrative leadership in the Republic of Ireland: an interpretive research project
… selection of public policies (Montesquieu 1748, Ostrom 1973, Osborne and Plastrik 1997, Alimo-Metcalfe and Alban-Metcalfe 2003, Van Wart and Dicke 2008). The research is preluded by a conceptual discussion on leadership, morality, ethics and values (Chau 2007b); a qualitative research on …
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Community trash as community income in Kathmandu: if waste were treated as a common pool resource through public-private partnerships
… model, which is an application of Elinor Ostrom’s Common Pool Resources, also increases interaction and interdependence among community members. The core idea in CPR is that some public goods are indeed subtractive. Said differently, if individuals follow their own self interest instead of …
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Do Elinor Ostroms principles of successful institutions illuminate the challenges to participation in groundwater governance in South Africa? What limits are there to using Ostrom's principles to analyse groundwater governance challenged in South Africa?
Elinor Ostrom's research has opened up a field of study into locally developed institutions for commons governance and has successfully disproved the notion that it is impossible for individuals to address collective problems cooperatively (Ostrom, 1993:110). South Africa has a semi-arid country …
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Two New Dinosaur Bonebeds From the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wy: an Analysis of the Paleontology and Stratigraphy
… of the area was examined using Kvale, 1986, Ostrom, 1970, and Moberly, 1960's work in order to see which model was more robust. The fossils in the VMNH digsite were used to supplement the stratigraphic data in determining the age of specific beds. All of Ostrom's units were identified …
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State Steering in Polycentric Governance Systems: Climate Policy Integration in Ontario and California's Transportation Sectors
… This research furthers work by Elinor Ostrom and others on operationalizing polycentric climate governance, given the complexity and institutional void associated with polycentric governance systems. In particular, this research argues that the state is a unique actor within polycentric …
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Hazard Identification and Coastal Stratigraphy in Crescent Harbor, Northeast Whidbey Island, Washington
Crescent Harbor marsh, on northeastern Whidbey Island, records evidence of co-seismic land-level change 1825 to 1925 cal. yrs. BP. The lithostratigraphy and diatom microfossil assemblages reveal a marsh peat abruptly overlain by intertidal mud, indicating rapid subsidence. Analysis of the …
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
… perspective of social-ecological systems (Ostrom 2008) was used to investigate the activities, relations and governance involved in allotments and AFNs, organised through the concepts of multidimensional capital assets (Bebbington 1999). This research demonstrates how activities on …
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Co-operative or investor owned: how does the structure of the electric wind energy firm influence the effects of wind energy development on community development?
… actors govern. But recent work by Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School finds that in many instances community development is optimized when resources users from the local community govern themselves. What are the implications of applying Bloomington School policy to the wind energy …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
This dissertation evaluates three evangelical models, namely, Open theism, Arminianism, and Calvinism in terms of how these models of divine sovereignty function to comfort suffering Christians. Central to this evaluation is discovering the various degrees of equivocation each model affords …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
This dissertation examines how adaptations of the hard-boiled crime genre have become tools for literary innovation and social criticism in the work of four contemporary authors. Since the 1970s, influential writers such as Rubem Fonseca in Brazil and Ricardo Piglia in Argentina have established …
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Photodetection in Silicon Pyramidal Microdischarges
Photodetection in a silicon pyramidal microdischarge device has been observed. This hybrid plasma/semiconductor device was fabricated from standard silicon wafers using common integrated circuit, microfabrication techniques. The response of the devices to a 780-nm laser diode was shown to have an …
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Clay Mineralogy of Some Carbonate Rocks of Illinois
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T19:13:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5904545.pdf: 8143140 bytes, checksum: 7c1ce54e9f7224a41226e1e922f3b91d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Logistics of ammunition in Korea.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering.
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Governança da política de saneamento, uma proposta de índices de sustentabilidade no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (ISSB-MS)
… institucional e da governança de Elinor Ostrom, por estarem envolvidas as questões da água, bem como as abordagens de avaliação do desenvolvimento, tais como Bellagio STAMP e princípios de Dublin, orientando a avaliação e monitoramento da gestão integrada da água. Assim, abordaram-se …
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Open Source Toolkit for Reentry Object Modeling
<p>Predicting the mass, position, and velocity of an object during its reentry are critical to satisfy NASA and ESA requirements. This thesis outlines a 3-D orbit and mass determination system for use on low earth orbit as applicable to general objects, of various material and size. The solution …
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