Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action

TL;DR: Olwig et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the changing structures of use and control rights to Austrian landscapes and resulting shifts between locally driven and centrally controlled landscape change, and compared with international literature that indicates a loss of control of the local rural population over their natural resources.

TL;DR: Though no ideal ‘adaptive regime’ is found in Lesotho, the results confirm the AM hypotheses that decentralised decision-making, open information sources, and plurality of user interests lead to improved outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-experimental approach combining covariate matching with difference-in-difference estimation was used to assess program effectiveness on reducing deforestation in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a hypothesis for territorial defense that links ecological, economic, and social factors through Allee's principle: positive covariance between utility and the number of cohabiting individuals up to intermediate population densities.

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.