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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"common-pool resource"”.
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Fight Or Flight: Migration and Conflict Over A Common Pool Resource
… conflict model of property appropriation from a common pool resource. Anthropological observations are used to motivate the development of the theory. The model suggests that incentives to migrate will result in expenditures on enforcement of insecure claims to the resource that are lower than …
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Behaviour in Common-Pool Resource games: investigating decision-making towards conservation and environmental issues
Hardin’s (1968) ‘Tragedy of the commons’, various fields, including economics, social sciences, conservation and environmental sciences have invested a great amount of effort to identify the characteristics that allow groups of individuals to administer and organise the use of common resources. The …
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Community trash as community income in Kathmandu: if waste were treated as a common pool resource through public-private partnerships
… 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 working …
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The role of gender, ethnicity and harambee in corruption : experimental evidence from Kenya
… this thesis uses a public good game and a common pool resource game to examine the alleged link between harambee and corruption.
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Perspectives on Antarctic conservation: an analysis of New Zealand Antarctic stakeholder views
… no state ownership, is one of the world’s global commons. This area is facing challenges that extend beyond its boundaries. Challenges stemming from global warming, economic utilisation of natural resources, increased human visitation and growing science-related activities in the area that are …
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Essays on Leadership Selection and Public Goods Provision in Self-Help Organizations
… micro-lending and micro-insurance groups, common-pool resource groups, women and artisan cooperatives and farmer associations. The dissertation focuses on Uganda's recent largest development project: the Agriculture Productivity Enhancement Project (APEP). USAID funded, APEP's stated goal …
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Tragedy of the routing table : an analysis of collective action amongst Internet network operators
… Report are discussed and examined using Ostrom's Common Pool Resource framework. The thesis then concludes with a discussion of options for mitigating routing table growth, including the continued use of community forces to better manage the Internet routing table.
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At the heart of everything we do: a case study of public/patient participation in hospital governance
… a novel interpretation of health financing as a common pool resource. This in turn forms the basis for a critique of the imposition of economic and management incentives designed predominantly for profit- seeking firms onto public service providers.
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Evaluating Community Forestry in Huai Lu Luang, Thailand
… incorporated Elinor Ostrom’s (2002) framework of resource and resource user attributes for successful self-governance of common pool resource management, as a means of evaluating the feasibility of community-based management of Huai Lu Luang’s community forest. Methods included participant …
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Evaluating Community Forestry in Huai Lu Luang, Thailand
… incorporated Elinor Ostrom’s (2002) framework of resource and resource user attributes for successful self-governance of common pool resource management, as a means of evaluating the feasibility of community-based management of Huai Lu Luang’s community forest. Methods included participant …
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A Resource Management Analysis of Olympia and Pacific Oysters in Puget Sound
… Since then, Pacific oysters have become the most common species sold by shellfish growers in the Pacific Northwest due to their hardiness and fast growth. Olympia oysters have subsequently become the focus of many restoration projects in Puget Sound in attempts to regrow populations. …
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A theory of sustained cooperation with evidence from irrigation institutions in Nepal
… based institutions for using and managing shared resources survive, adapt and continue to perform well in the face of changing circumstances while others decline and disappear? To answer this, I revisited 233 irrigation canals in Nepal, originally used to illustrate the Common Pool Resource …
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Analysis of institutional arrangements and common pool resources governance: the case of Lake Tana sub-basin, Ethiopia
Although Common Pool Resources (CPRs) make up a significant share of total income for rural households in Ethiopia and elsewhere in developing world, limited access to these resources and environmental degradation threaten local livelihoods. As a result, the issues of management, governance of CPRs …
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A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
… places fishers at the center of decision-making. Common-pool resource theory has assembled a large body of evidence that resource users, without top-down state control, are able to devise and enforce rules that lead to long-term sustainable resource harvest. The social and ecological …
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Effectiveness of Municipal Collaboration for Watershed Management in the Southern Colorado River Basin
… of a watershed, which can be categorized as a common pool resource, is generally implemented at the local government scale via National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) permits as issued by the United States Environmental Protection …
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The Potential of Watershed Development for Enhancing Agricultural Livelihood: Three Essays from the Semi-arid Regions of India
… recharged groundwater table becomes the natural resource base from which farming households draw water for irrigation by investing in wells or other such assets. The management of micro-watersheds are based on the principles of community based natural resource management. However, the irrigation …
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An economic and institutional analysis of community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe
… in Southern Africa in general, is managed as a common pool resource by communities under community-based natural resource management. Several challenges threaten conservation efforts at both local and higher levels, thus hindering its ability to bring about development that might improve the …
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Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda
… 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 privatization. Ostrom proposed eight design …
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From the Forest to the Sea: Lessons in Managing Public Space
… and practice in fields such as policy analysis, common-pool resource theory, institutional analysis, planning and design, community engagement, and conflict resolution. Second, it looks at the history of U.S. public lands--a public space that has been accommodating multiple uses and conservation …
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Reframing citizenship by decentralizing development under India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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