Currently, many scholars are undertaking new theoretical efforts. A core effort is developing
a more general theory of individual choice that recognizes the central role of trust in coping …

A major problem worldwide is the potential loss of fisheries, forests, and water resources.
Understanding of the processes that lead to improvements in or deterioration of natural …

This chapter focuses on the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework that has
evolved out of the work of many colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy …

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-
based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However …

Modern climate change is dominated by human influences, which are now large enough to
exceed the bounds of natural variability. The main source of global climate change is human …

This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate
change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize …

Disturbances to key aspects of ecological systems, including biodiversity loss, climate
change, pollution and natural resource degradation, have become a major concern to many …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

This article seeks to shed new light on the study of decentralized natural resource
governance by applying institutional theories of polycentricity—the relationships among …

Protected areas in tropical countries are managed under different governance regimes, the
relative effectiveness of which in avoiding deforestation has been the subject of recent …