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Acheson, James M. 2006. Institutional failure in resources management. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:117-134. Author's Keywords: collective action, natural resources, conservation rules, devising institutions, rational choice
Agrawal, Arun. 2001. Common property institutions and sustainable governance of resources. World Development 29:1649-1672. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, common-pool resources, property rights, institutions ACSC Keywords: conservation, South, institutions, collective action, watershed management, natural-resources, forest management, community, population, politics, history, CPRs
Andersson, Krister P. 2003, 2004. Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance. World Development 32:233-249. Author's Keywords: decentralization, collective action, forestry, Bolivia, municipal government, Latin America ACSC Keywords: common property, policy, governance
Edmunds, David and Wollenberg, Eva. 2001. A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations. Development and Change 32:231-253. ACSC Keywords: development, natural resource management, sustainability, collective action, environment, forest, methods, stakeholders, negotiation
Fisher, William F. 1997. Doing good? The politics and anti-politics of NGO practices. Annual Review of Anthropology 26:439-464. Author's Keywords: development, collective action, globalization, civil society, nongovernmental organizations ACSC Keywords: locality
Gibson, C. C., Williams, J. T., and Ostrom, E. 2005. Local enforcement and better forests. World Development 33:273-284. Author's Keywords: resource management, collective action, forestry, monitoring and sanctioning ACSC Keywords: management, governance, institutions, accountability, commons, community forestry, cooperation, punishment, heterogeneity, reciprocity, IFRI research program, management legitimacy
Hartanto, Hartanto, Lorenzo, Maria Cristina B., and Frio, Anita L. 2002. Collective action and learning in developing a local monitoring system. International Forestry Review 4:184-194. Author's Keywords: collective action, monitoring, community forestry, learning, Criteria and Indicators ACSC Keywords: forests, forestry
Klooster, D. 1999. Community-based forestry in Mexico: Can it reverse processes of degradation?. Land Degradation & Development 10:365-381. Author's Keywords: common property, Community-based Conservation, political ecology, forestry, Mexico, co-management, corruption, forest degradation ACSC Keywords: management, policy, collective action, sustainable development
Leach, Melissa, Mearns, Robin, and Scoones, Ian. 1999. Environmental entitlements: Dynamics and institutions in community-based natural resource management. World Development 27:225-247. ACSC Keywords: development narratives, africa, political ecology, collective action, gender, geography, property
Nagendra, Harini, Karmacharya, Mukunda, and Karna, Birendra. 2005. Evaluating forest management in Nepal: Views across space and time. Ecology and Society 10:-. Author's Keywords: institutions, Nepal, co-management, remote sensing, protected area, community forestry, buffer zone, land-cover change ACSC Keywords: deforestation, forests, collective action, geomatics, space, Terai, biodiversity conservation, time, heterogeneity, southern cameroon, group-size
Ostrom, E. 2007. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:15181-15187. Author's Keywords: scale, interdisciplinary research, governance, collective action, forest management, community, social-ecological systems, complexity, commons, resources, systems, dynamics, Sustainability science, diagnostic model
Poteete, Amy R. and Ostrom, Elinor. Heterogeneity, group size and collective action: The role of institutions in forest management. ACSC Keywords: common property, policy, institutions, collective action, sustainable management
Pretty, Jules and Ward, Hugh. 2001. Social capital and the environment. World Development 29:209-227. Author's Keywords: natural resource management, collective action, social capital, participatory organizations
Smith, Eric Alden and Wishnie, Mark. 2000. Conservation and subsistence in small-scale societies. Annual Review of Anthropology 29:493-524. Author's Keywords: biodiversity, sustainability, collective action, common property resources ACSC Keywords: common property, biodiversity, population, prey choice, indigenous, ecosystems, behavioral ecology, human carrying-capacity, solomon-islands, intensification
Young, Oran R. 1994. The problem of scale in human environment relationships. Journal of Theoretical Politics 6:429-447. Author's Keywords: institutions, collective action, cpr arrangements, international resource regimes, problem of scale ACSC Keywords: politics, regimes, international-cooperation, problems of scale

Citation

Acheson, James M. 2006. Institutional failure in resources management. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:117-134.

Author's Keywords: collective action, natural resources, conservation rules, devising institutions, rational choice

Agrawal, Arun. 2001. Common property institutions and sustainable governance of resources. World Development 29:1649-1672.

Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, common-pool resources, property rights, institutions

ACSC Keywords: conservation, South, institutions, collective action, watershed management, natural-resources, forest management, community, population, politics, history, CPRs

Andersson, Krister P. 2003, 2004. Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance. World Development 32:233-249.

Author's Keywords: decentralization, collective action, forestry, Bolivia, municipal government, Latin America

ACSC Keywords: common property, policy, governance

Edmunds, David and Wollenberg, Eva. 2001. A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations. Development and Change 32:231-253.

ACSC Keywords: development, natural resource management, sustainability, collective action, environment, forest, methods, stakeholders, negotiation

Fisher, William F. 1997. Doing good? The politics and anti-politics of NGO practices. Annual Review of Anthropology 26:439-464.

Author's Keywords: development, collective action, globalization, civil society, nongovernmental organizations

ACSC Keywords: locality

Gibson, C. C., Williams, J. T., and Ostrom, E. 2005. Local enforcement and better forests. World Development 33:273-284.

Author's Keywords: resource management, collective action, forestry, monitoring and sanctioning

ACSC Keywords: management, governance, institutions, accountability, commons, community forestry, cooperation, punishment, heterogeneity, reciprocity, IFRI research program, management legitimacy

Hartanto, Hartanto, Lorenzo, Maria Cristina B., and Frio, Anita L. 2002. Collective action and learning in developing a local monitoring system. International Forestry Review 4:184-194.

Author's Keywords: collective action, monitoring, community forestry, learning, Criteria and Indicators

ACSC Keywords: forests, forestry

Klooster, D. 1999. Community-based forestry in Mexico: Can it reverse processes of degradation?. Land Degradation & Development 10:365-381.

Author's Keywords: common property, Community-based Conservation, political ecology, forestry, Mexico, co-management, corruption, forest degradation

ACSC Keywords: management, policy, collective action, sustainable development

Leach, Melissa, Mearns, Robin, and Scoones, Ian. 1999. Environmental entitlements: Dynamics and institutions in community-based natural resource management. World Development 27:225-247.

ACSC Keywords: development narratives, africa, political ecology, collective action, gender, geography, property

Nagendra, Harini, Karmacharya, Mukunda, and Karna, Birendra. 2005. Evaluating forest management in Nepal: Views across space and time. Ecology and Society 10:-.

Author's Keywords: institutions, Nepal, co-management, remote sensing, protected area, community forestry, buffer zone, land-cover change

ACSC Keywords: deforestation, forests, collective action, geomatics, space, Terai, biodiversity conservation, time, heterogeneity, southern cameroon, group-size

Ostrom, E. 2007. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:15181-15187.

Author's Keywords: scale, interdisciplinary research, governance, collective action, forest management, community, social-ecological systems, complexity, commons, resources, systems, dynamics, Sustainability science, diagnostic model

Poteete, Amy R. and Ostrom, Elinor. Heterogeneity, group size and collective action: The role of institutions in forest management.

ACSC Keywords: common property, policy, institutions, collective action, sustainable management

Pretty, Jules and Ward, Hugh. 2001. Social capital and the environment. World Development 29:209-227.

Author's Keywords: natural resource management, collective action, social capital, participatory organizations

Smith, Eric Alden and Wishnie, Mark. 2000. Conservation and subsistence in small-scale societies. Annual Review of Anthropology 29:493-524.

Author's Keywords: biodiversity, sustainability, collective action, common property resources

ACSC Keywords: common property, biodiversity, population, prey choice, indigenous, ecosystems, behavioral ecology, human carrying-capacity, solomon-islands, intensification

Young, Oran R. 1994. The problem of scale in human environment relationships. Journal of Theoretical Politics 6:429-447.

Author's Keywords: institutions, collective action, cpr arrangements, international resource regimes, problem of scale

ACSC Keywords: politics, regimes, international-cooperation, problems of scale