Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action

TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory data analysis was conducted to evaluate links between strategies used to promote compliance with MPA regulations (e.g. incentives and penalties) and indicators of ecological condition, including biomass and density of commercial fish species, fish functional groups and coral cover in 21 MPAs across 13 different countries and territories in the greater Caribbean region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared two community-based reef management institutions, one located in a community with a reef struggling to recover from destructive fishing, the other in an island community that has experienced a remarkable recovery.

TL;DR: It is suggested that mechanisms driving the emergence of cooperative behaviours can be complex and that the opportunities for, and benefits derived from, cooperation are likely to depend critically on both the management objectives and dynamics of the resource.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors delineate the various ways in which rights to environmental and other resources can be assigned to individuals or groups, and examine models of individual and group interactions, drawing out their implications for the way in which resources will be utilized and managed under various rights assignments.

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.