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Implementation of pasture leasing rights for mobile pastoralists – a case study on institutional change during post-socialist reforms in Azerbaijan

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2015
Our study focuses on pasture reform in Azerbaijan within the context of transition and pasture reform in Central Asian and Caucasian countries. Despite the rapid emergence of individualised rights for pasture plots, which is an exceptional development in
Regina Neudert   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Property Rights on a Cold War battlefield: managing broadcasting transmissions through the Iron Curtain

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2011
This paper analyses the international regime governing the use of broadcasting frequencies in the long and medium wave bands in Europe from 1950 until 1970.
Christian Henrich-Franke
doaj   +1 more source

A multi-agent reinforcement learning model of common-pool resource appropriation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Humanity faces numerous problems of common-pool resource appropriation. This class of multi-agent social dilemma includes the problems of ensuring sustainable use of fresh water, common fisheries, grazing pastures, and irrigation systems. Abstract models
Graepel, Thore   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

The role of institutions in community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2018
Institutions play a significant role in stabilizing large-scale cooperation in common pool resource management. Without restrictions to govern human behaviour, most natural resources are vulnerable to overexploitation.
Herbert Ntuli, Edwin Muchapondwa
doaj   +1 more source

The appropriation of endogenously provided common-pool resources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Because game theory suggests that the origin of a common-pool resource should not affect appropriation behavior, experimental studies of appropriation from common-pool resources generally presume resources are exogenously provided.
NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Natural resource governance in lower Omo, Ethiopia – negotiation processes instead of property rights and rules?

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2017
Research on common-pool resources in the last 30 years has hinged on concepts such as rules and property rights for understanding how access and use of natural resources is managed by communities and other actors.
Degu Tadie, Anke Fischer
doaj   +1 more source

Commons management and ecotourism: Ethnographic evidence from the Amazon

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2009
The paper evaluates the relationship between ecotourism and commons management. Social and economic impacts of ecotourism in an indigenous village in the Peruvian Amazon are considered in relation to opportunities for collective action to manage common ...
Amanda Lee Stronza
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Many natural resources and common-pool resources have inherent thresholds regarding the onset of deleterious environmental impacts or consequences. Group and individual behavior were examined in an experimental setting using three distinct games designed
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E
core   +8 more sources

Understanding large social-ecological systems: introducing the SESMAD project

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2014
This article introduces the Social-ecological systems meta-analysis database (SESMAD) project, which is the project behind the case studies and synthetic articles contained in this special issue of the 'International Journal of the Commons'. SESMAD is an
Michael Cox
doaj   +1 more source

Common pool resources with support

open access: yes, 2020
We examine the role of support for coalition stability in common pool resource games such as fisheries games. Some players may not want to join a coalition that jointly manages a resource.
Weikard, Hans Peter   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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