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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"common-pool resources"”.
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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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Urban complex : between institutions and space
… along with formal governance, to manage the common-pool resources inside these buildings. The research describes such buildings as an urban complex because of not just the mix-use quality, but also the intertwined, transforming structure of social institutions. As formal and informal …
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The management of Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora: an assessment of the integration of co-governance and community agreements into a nested, statutory mangement plan
Strategies to manage common-pool resources vary and despite substantial scholarly and practical literature very little has been written on how communities and co-governance interact with a nested system, especially as they apply to a Treaty arrangement as is the case in New Zealand. This research …
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The governance of local climate commons
… Using lenses of social ecological systems, common pool resources and subsidiarity, this thesis identifies attributes of governance that can support capacity to anticipate, adapt and address local climate change impacts on ecological and social systems. Set in Waverley Local Government Area …
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Big hopes for small-scale fishers: a critical review of South Africa's small-scale fishing policy and regulations
… years after the enactment of the Marine Living resources Act (18 of 1998), which gives express recognition to the subsistence or small-scale fisheries sector, a regime addressing the needs of this sector has finally been promulgated. That regime consists of the Policy for the Small Scale …
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Investigation into a future policy landscape to achieve sustainability in the Scottish coastal region
… equilibrium in complex systems including common pool resources and recent initiatives in developing sustainable communities. A working hypothesis for a future policy framework supporting sustainable development in the Scottish coastal region was proposed and tested using the results of the …
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National forests are (not) parks : managing amenity migration to America's national forests
… planning. Ultimately, I argue that USNF are common pool resources that rely on a network of partners to align environmental and economic benefits.
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El agua no se vende, el agua se defiende : water rights transfers and community irrigation in New Mexico's acequias
… proven to be a self-sustaining means of managing common pool resources, it exists in tension with dominant legal doctrines that treat water as subject to tradable property rights. In recent decades, the growth of the state's urban areas has increased pressure on farmers to sell their water rights …
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Multi-agent system for future groundwater depletion scenarios using game theory
Groundwater is one of the most vital of all common pool resources throughout the world. More than half of groundwater is used to grow crops. This research models groundwater depletion patterns within a multi-agent system framework. Irrigators are modeled as agents in the multi-agent system. The …
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Towards the Governance of Open Distributed Grids - A Case Study in Wireless Mobile Grids
… of autonomous entities that voluntarily commit resources to a common pool. The social dilemma in such systems is that it is advantageous for rational users to access the common pool resources without making any commitment of their own. This is commonly known as “free-riding”. However, if a …
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Economic analysis of participatory forest management in Kenya
… centralized top down approach to management of common pool resources such as forests led policy makers and donors to conclude that devolution of forest management to local communities can be the only solution to such failures. Developing countries have thus resorted to devolution of forest …
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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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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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Socio-economic analysis of community-based micro hydro electricity schemes in Kenya
… access rates, but with abundant micro hydro resources spread across vast rural locations. Although majority of financial resources are channeled to grid extension in developing countries like Kenya, many rural households still live 'under the grid' because they cannot afford connection fees …
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Forests and fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon: Understanding incentives to comply with conservation efforts
This PhD dissertation represents an effort to understand individual behavior leading to decisions regarding natural resource use and compliance with conservation policy at the government and at the community levels through the analysis of specific cases in the Brazilian Amazon. I first analyze the …
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Elite capture and forest governance in India
… therefore, fail to shape the decisions on forest resources on which their own livelihoods depend. CBNRM has largely failed in breaking the tight inter-locking and multifaceted control of the elites over forest-related decisions. The continuous failure of forest governance to tackle elite capture …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… in two villages and locally important plant resources in an adjacent private, littoral forest, the Lokaro Reserve in southeastern Madagascar. Two hundred and five plant species were identified through “walk-in-the-woods” interviews with three local experts (an ombiasa, a traditional healer) …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… in two villages and locally important plant resources in an adjacent private, littoral forest, the Lokaro Reserve in southeastern Madagascar. Two hundred and five plant species were identified through “walk-in-the-woods” interviews with three local experts (an ombiasa, a traditional healer) …
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Intermediation and disintermediation of resources for entrepreneurship and innovation in the maker movement.
… configured around social exchange, technology resources, and knowledge creation and sharing. Through a multiple case study design, I build a theoretical understanding of the conditions and mechanisms underlying physical maker spaces as collective resource systems that can lead to value capture …
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A collective self-governance framework for urban facilities management settings: application at public transport interchanges in economically depressed areas in Cape Town
… Design Principles for Self-Governance of Common-Pool Resources to form the theoretical framework. The merging of these three theories produced five critical constructs that were utilised to develop the conceptual framework: place attachment, group-based anger, group identification, group …
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