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Governing scarcity. Water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain

International Journal of the Commons, 2011
It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the irrigation communities in pre-1950s ...
Samuel Garrido
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Miejskość dóbr wspólnych. Refleksje nad adaptowaniem koncepcji Common-Pool Resources

Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2018
Koncepcja dóbr wspólnych (Common-Pool Resources, CPR) jest przedmiotem zainteresowania wielu badaczy. Od lat zaobserwować można również próby jej zaadaptowania do różnych warunków, innych niż opisane przez E. Ostrom.
Małgorzata Czornik
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Ecosystem services and ecological degradation of communal wetlands in a South African biodiversity hotspot [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2019
Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full ...
A. Owethu Pantshwa, Falko T. Buschke
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Design principles for global commons: Natural resources and emerging technologies

International Journal of the Commons, 2011
Ostrom’s design principles for managing common pool resources were developed largely by examining local commons involving natural resources. This paper enumerates several key characteristics that distinguish such commons from more complex commons ...
Paul C. Stern
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New rules are not rules: Privatization of pastoral commons and local attempts at curtailment in southwest Madagascar

International Journal of the Commons, 2016
This paper examines the case of indigenous privatization of the important fodder tree samata (Euphorbia stenoclada) and concurrent legal curtailment of this privatization among the Tanalana people of southwest Madagascar from a long-term perspective ...
Johanna Friederike Goetter, Regina Neudert   +1 more
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Measuring the potential for self-governance: An approach for the management of the common-pool resources

International Journal of the Commons, 2015
Self-governance can be a suitable instrument for the management of a common pool resource (CPR). Under self-governance, individuals may organize themselves for the use of a CPR to deal with problems derived from the free access like overexploitation and ...
Sergio Colin-Castillo, Richard T. Woodward   +1 more
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A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management

Ecology and Society, 2010
In 1990, Elinor Ostrom proposed eight design principles, positing them to characterize robust institutions for managing common-pool resources such as forests or fisheries.
Michael Cox, Gwen Arnold, Sergio Villamayor Tomás   +2 more
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Balancing Accuracy and Meaning in Common-Pool Resource Theory

Ecology and Society, 2008
Common-pool resources are managed in complex environments that are amenable to understanding, analysis, and management at multiple levels. This paper develops a heuristic criterion to identify the costs and benefits of adopting various levels of analysis
Michael Cox
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Augmenting the Input-Output Framework for 'Common Pool' Resources: Operationalising the Full Leontief Environmental Model [PDF]

, 2007
In its initial formulation, the full Leontief (1970) environmental model augments the conventional Input-Output (IO) table by introducing pollution generation and separately identified pollution elimination sectors.
Swales, J.K., Allan, G., Swales, J Kim, Turner, K., Swales, J. Kim, Grant J. Allan, Karen R. Turner, Peter G. Mcgregor, Hanley, Nicholas, Hanley, N., Turner, Karen, J. Kim Swales, Allan, Grant, McGregor, Peter G, Nicholas D. Hanley, Allan, Grant J., McGregor, P.G., Turner, Karen R., Hanley, Nicholas D., McGregor, Peter G.   +19 more
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Intergroup cooperation prevents resource exhaustion but undermines intra-group cooperation in the common-pool resource experiment

Ecology and Society, 2017
Can intergroup cooperation over resources help prevent resource exhaustion and mitigate effects of climate change? How does resource uncertainty affect inter- and intra- group cooperation over resources in the common-pool resource dilemmas?
Karolina Safarzynska
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