Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action

TL;DR: This paper examined the role and contributions of institutions and drought governance, either across spatial scales [from regional (i.e., Southern African Development Community) to national scales (e.g., South Africa) to the very local scale [from Limpopo Province, South Africa] or across temporal scales (over at least 100 yr).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the potential to increase livestock production by increasing animal numbers by maintaining migration corridors, providing legal rights to historic grazing lands and providing support services along migration corridors such as watering points, markets, schools, and health care.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that local political contexts condition the effectiveness of participatory irrigation policies when irrigation is politically salient, local politicians pressure bureaucrats to better engage with farmers, and also show that training programs are not as effective at increasing water user organization activity as frequent contact between bureaucrats and farmers.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an analytical framework that distinguishes four types of urbanization-associated farmland loss and highlighted the direct and indirect linkages between urbanization and the agri-food system.

TL;DR: The authors argue that community governance addresses some common market and state failures but typically relies on insider-outsider distinctions that may be morally repugnant and economically costly, and the individual motivations supporting community governance are not captured by either selfishness or altruism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative cross-case analysis of six watershed programs is presented to examine how collaboration is used to enhance governance of networks where problem-solving capacity is widely dispersed and few organizations accomplish their missions by acting alone.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the current dominant discourse on institutions and economic development suffers from a number of theoretical problems, such as the neglect of the causality running from development to institutions, the inability to see the impossibility of a free market, and the belief that the freest market and the strongest protection of private property rights are best for economic development.

TL;DR: From interdependence and institutions to globalization and governance as mentioned in this paper, the concept of legalization has been proposed as an alternative to the Hobbe's Dilemma in international politics.