Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action

TL;DR: An evaluative framework to assess tools and instruments applied during the agenda- setting stage of food policy processes in Finland and Sweden is applied, revealing that their agenda-setting design cannot be assessed as fully addressing both directionality and reflexivity, thus possibly falling short of the policy design needed for enable more transformative policy approaches.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the cooperation conditions are independent of the value of environmental damages and also the intensity of extraction externalities, and the application of an efficient evolutionary algorithm provides a variety of realistic problems with an opportunity to overcome the limitations of traditional optimization techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the suitability of the National Estuary Program's Management Conference process for managing estuarine ecosystems is assessed. But, it remains to be determined if a state's "ecological capacity" will limit the implementation of the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plans (CCMPs) that are produced by each estuary program.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-method approach was used to understand conflict management from the perspective of rural peoples by not only describing past highly publicized conflicts but also by analyzing the steps rural peoples follow to management disagreements that arise in their everyday lives.

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.