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Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean +2 more
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Evaluating the relationships between the legal and illegal international wildlife trades
Conservation Letters, 2020 The international legal trade in wildlife can provide economic and other benefits, but when unsustainable can be a driver of population declines. This impact is magnified by the additional burden of illegal trade, yet how it covaries with legal trade ...
Derek P. Tittensor +11 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 China is among the world’s leading consumer markets for wildlife extracted both legally and illegally from across the globe. Due to its mega-richness in biodiversity and strong economic ties with China, Southeast Asia (SEA) has long been implicated as a ...
Yunbo Jiao +3 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
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Ghost economy: The forbidden trade of the Himalayas
Global Ecology and ConservationThe Hindu Kush Himalayas, a region with diverse ecosystems and rich biodiversity, faces widespread illegal wildlife crime. We reviewed available literature to gain insights into the scale and patterns of illegal wildlife crime in the HKH, hotspots ...
Babar Khan, Kesang Wangchuk
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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
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Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe illegal wildlife trade is a key driver of biodiversity loss and a barrier to desired transformations in socio-environmental systems. It is known to exploit licit networks, such as the global airline flight network, yet the ability of science to ...
Hannah Murray +2 more
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Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan
Conservation Letters, 2020 Illegal wildlife trade is gaining prominence as a threat to biodiversity, but addressing it remains challenging. To help inform proactive policy responses in the face of uncertainty, in 2018 we conducted a horizon scan of significant emerging issues.
Nafeesa Esmail +24 more
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Tackling saiga horn consumption in Singapore: From consumer insights to intervention co‐design
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade is a key driver of biodiversity loss, and reducing consumer demand is recognised as a critical step in addressing it. However, studies understanding the drivers of wildlife product consumption and identifying effective strategies to reduce it remain very limited.
Xiaotong Cai +5 more
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Curbing Illegal Wildlife Trade to Combat Pandemics [PDF]
, 2020 25-26Outbreak of zoonotic diseases, diseases originating from animals, is a reality today.
Bahuguna, Archana
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