Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action

TL;DR: The project scholarship community needs to revisit how it conceptualizes a "project" to understand it as an intervention into nature: intervening in both existing situations and uncertain future as discussed by the authors , and this has implications for the skills needed by practitioners and their training, for the kind of projects that are conceived and delivered.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effect of water institutions already existing or proposed by local stakeholder organizations on preserving target lake levels against a background of highly volatile water availability which negatively affects the economic viability of institutions shows that economic scarcity might undermine water institutions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined a case where commercial fishers in Two Rivers, North Carolina practice active non-participation regarding fisheries governance; they choose not to become involved in formal political activities, while instead participating in informal governance activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify social relationships and interdependencies as central to rural fishing communities and livelihoods and absent from the rational choice/individual economic actor assumptions of modern resource allocation and management regimes.

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.