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2005. Joining the dots: The report of the Tiger Task Force. Tiger Task Force - Government of India.
ACSC Keywords: conservation, policy, India, institution |
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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 |
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Adger, W. Neil, Brown, Tatrina, Fairbrass, Jenny, Jordan, Andrew, Paavola, Jouni, Rosendo, Sergio, and Seyfang, Gill. 2003. Governance for sustainability: Towards a 'thick' understanding of environmental decision making. Environment and Planning A 35:1095-1110.
Author's Keywords: environmental governance, environmental decision-making, institutional arrangements, interdisciplinary research, contextuality |
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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 |
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Agrawal, Arun. 2003. Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: Context, methods, and politics. Annual Review of Anthropology 32:243-262.
Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, sustainability, institution |
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Anderies, John M., Janssen, Marco A., and Ostrom, Elinor. 2004. A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective. Ecology and Society 9.
ACSC Keywords: common property, governance, institutions, disturbance, resilience, social-ecological systems |
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Anderson, Paul Nicholas. 2004. What rights are eclipsed when risk is defined by corporatism? Governance and GM food. Theory, Culture & Society 21:155-169.
ACSC Keywords: governance, NGO, corporate power, financial institutions, GM food, genetically modified food |
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Andersson, Krister P. 2003. What motivates municipal governments? Uncovering the institutional incentives for municiple governance of forest resources in Bolivia. Journal of Environment & Development 12:5-27.
Author's Keywords: decentralization, forestry, environmental policy, incentives, Bolivia, municipal government ACSC Keywords: institutions |
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Armitage, Derek R. 2005. Adaptive capacity and community-based natural resource management. Environmental Management 35:703-715.
Author's Keywords: sustainability, resilience, adaptation, capacity, community-based management, collaboration, participatory management ACSC Keywords: scale, conservation, institutions, politics, fisheries management, central sulawesi, comanagement, indonesia, histories, lessons, Southeast Asia |
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Ashenafi, Zelealem Tefera and Leader-Williams, N. 2005. Indigenous common property resource management in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Human Ecology 33:539-563.
Author's Keywords: Ethiopia, common property resources, indigenous resource managementn institutions, Qero system, Guassa |
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Balchin, Cassandra. 2007. The F-word and the S-word - too much of one and not enough of the other. Development in Practice 17:532-538.
Author's Keywords: rights, civil society, aid, Gender and Diversity ACSC Keywords: human rights, United States, Social justice, ECONOMIC policy, FAITH-based human services, GREAT Britain, Institutional ethnography, language |
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Barrett, Christopher B., Brandon, Katrina, Gibson, Clark C., and Gjertsen, Heidi. 2001. Conserving tropical biodiversity amid weak institutions. Bioscience 51:497-502.
ACSC Keywords: scale, CBC, Community-based Conservation, natural resource management, sustainability, africa, institutions, community, politics, lessons, integrated conservation, programs, networks, development projects |
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Batliwala, Srilatha. 2007. Taking the power out of empowerment: An experiential account. Development in Practice 17:557-565.
Author's Keywords: rights, Southeast Asia, aid, Gender and Diversity ACSC Keywords: India, social movements, SELF-efficacy, Institutional ethnography, WOMEN in development, JARGON (Terminology), TERMS & phrases, MICROFINANCE, LEXICON (Linguistics) |
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Becker, C. Dustin, Agreda, Ana, Astudillo, Evelyng, Costantino, Melina, and Torres, Pascual. 2005. Community-based monitoring of fog capture and biodiversity at Loma Alta, Ecuador enhance social capital and institutional cooperation. Biodiversity and Conservation 14:2695-2707.
Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, ecological monitoring, locally-based monitoring, ecuador, important bird area, tropical biodiversity ACSC Keywords: CBC, forests, institutions, South America, marine, monitoring and evaluation, science |
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Becker, C. Dustin and Ghimire, Kabita. 2003. Synergy between traditional ecological knowledge and conservation science supports forest preservation in Ecuador. Conservation Ecology 8:-.
ACSC Keywords: scale, institutions, indigenous knowledge, IK, protected areas, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, PAs, attitudes about biodiversity |
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Becker, C. Dustin and Ostrom, Elinor. 1995. Human ecology and resource sustainability: The importance of institutional diversity. Annual Review of Ecol. Syst. 26:113-133.
Author's Keywords: common-pool resources, institutions, complexity, spatial and temporal scales, design principles ACSC Keywords: africa, common-pool resources, institutions, sustainable, Uganda, CPR |
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Beg, Noreen, Morlot, Jan Corfee, Davidson, Ogunlade, Afrane-Okesse, Yaw, Tyani, Lwazikazi, Denton, Fatma, Sokona, Youba, Thomas, Jean Philippe, La Rovere, Emilio Lèbre, Parikh, Jyoti K., Parikh, Kirit, and Atiq Rahman, A. 2002. Linkages between climate change and sustainable development. Climate Policy (Elsevier) 2:129.
Author's Keywords: forestry, sustainable development, developing countries, capacity building, climate change, energy, institutional change, climactic changes, global temperature changes, biodiversity and climate change, CDM, climate change impacts, desertification and climate change, economic and social development, GHG mitigation policies |
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Berkes, Fikret. 2002. "Cross-scale institutional linkages: Perspective from the bottom up," in The Drama of the Commons: Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, pp. 293-321. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
ACSC Keywords: scale, natural resource management, governance, institutions, commons |
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Berkes, Fikret and Turner, Nancy J. 2006. Knowledge, learning and the evolution of conservation practice for social-ecological system resilience. 34:479-494.
Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, conservation, institutions, indigenous knowledge, resilience, traditional ecological knowledge, adaptive learning |
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Bishop, Pat and Davis, Glynn. 2002. Mapping public participation in policy choices. Australian Journal of Public Administration 61:14-29.
ACSC Keywords: trade-offs, tradeoffs, tradeoffs in participation, competition in participatory institutions |
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Borgatti, Stephen P. and Molina, José Luis. 2003. Ethical and strategic issues in organizational social network analysis. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 39:337-349.
Author's Keywords: organization, ethics, social networks, Institutional review boards ACSC Keywords: diffusion |
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Bozeman, Barry and Hirsch, Paul. 2005. Science ethics as a bureaucratic problem: IRBs, rules, and failures of control. Policy Sciences 38:269-291.
ACSC Keywords: institutions, science, United States, bureaucracy, ethics, ASSOCIATIONS |
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Bray, David Barton, Ellis, Edward A., Armijo-Canto, Natalia, and Beck, Christopher T. 2004. The institutional drivers of sustainable landscapes: A case study of the 'Mayan Zone' in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Land Use Policy 21:333-346.
Author's Keywords: deforestation, institutions, Mexico, sustainable landscapes, yucatan peninsula, land use/cover change ACSC Keywords: parks, science, forest, patterns, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, expansion |
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Brett, E. A. 2003. Participation and accountability in development management. Journal of Development Studies 40:1-29.
ACSC Keywords: state, accountability, organizations, markets, reform, institutional analysis, organizational effectiveness, top-down management, rural appraisal |
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Broad, Robin. 2007. 'Knowledge management': a case study of the World Bank's research department. Development in Practice 17:700-708.
Author's Keywords: methods, aid, Governance and Public Policy ACSC Keywords: globalization, World Bank, neoliberalism, economic development, knowledge management, JARGON (Terminology), INCENTIVES in industry, Latin America and the CaribbeanInstitutional ethnography |
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Brosius, J. P. 1999. Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest. American Anthropologist 101:36-57.
Author's Keywords: governmentality, environmentalism, Malaysia, Sarawak, institutionalization, rain forest politics ACSC Keywords: discourse, indigenous rights, NGOs, critique, stakeholders, politics of representation |
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Brown, Katrina. 2002. Innovations for conservation and development. Geographical Journal 168:6-17.
Author's Keywords: institutions, protected areas, amazonia, participation, caribbean, conservation and development, empowerment ACSC Keywords: institutional analysis, trade-offs |
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Brown, Katrina. 2003. Three challenges for a real people-centred conservation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12:89-92.
Author's Keywords: conservation, institutions, decision-making, conservation policy, community conservation, pluralism |
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Brunckhorst, D. J. 2005. Integration research for shaping sustainable regional landscapes. Journal of Research Practice 1.
Author's Keywords: institutions, social-ecological systems, integration, landscape ecology, natural resource policy, turning points |
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Buiter, Willem H. 2007. 'Country ownership': a term whose time has gone. Development in Practice 17:647-652.
Author's Keywords: aid, economic development, property, political planning, GOVERNMENT policy, LANGUAGE & languages, Governance and Public Policy, Institutional ethnography, JARGON (Terminology), TERMS & phrases |
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Butler, W. F. and Acott, T. G. 2007. An inquiry concerning the acceptance of intrinsic value theories of nature. Environmental Values 16:149-168.
Author's Keywords: conservation, institutions, environmentalism, Nature conservation, qualitative research, Philosophy of nature, land management, etc, ASSOCIATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL ethics, ENVIRONMENTAL responsibility, ENGLAND, Intrinsic value, qualitative analysis |
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Chernela, Janet. 2005. The politics of mediation: Local-global interactions in the Central Amazon of Brazil. American Anthropologist 107:620-631.
Author's Keywords: conservation, NGOs, social movements, brazilian amazon ACSC Keywords: institutions, organizations, america, local actors, international agents, scale of agency, rhetoric of participatory management |
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Christian Lund. 2006. Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa. Development and Change 37:685-705.
Author's Keywords: africa, local politics, Twilight institution, public authority |
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Colding, Johan and Folke, Carl. 2001. Social taboos: "Invisible" systems of local resource management and biological conservation. Ecological Applications 11:584-600.
Author's Keywords: ecology, biodiversity, conservation, natural resource management, knowledge, India, science, ecosystem management, fisheries, informal institutions, resource and habitat taboos (rhts), sacred groves, social taboos, traditional societies, transactions costs, food taboos, biodiversity conservation, diet, transaction costs ACSC Keywords: scale |
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Cooper, A. 2001. The state of mind we're in: Social anxiety, governance and the audit society. Psychoanalytic Studies 3:1-14.
ACSC Keywords: governance, accountability, institutional analysis |
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Cornwall, Andrea. 2007. Buzzwords and fuzzwords: Deconstructing development discourse. Development in Practice 17:471-484.
ACSC Keywords: LANGUAGE & languages, Institutional ethnography, JARGON (Terminology), TERMS & phrases, LEXICON (Linguistics), ENCYCLOPEDIAS & dictionaries, SACHS, Wolfgang, DEVELOPMENT Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge As Power, The (Book) |
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D'haeze, D., Deckers, J., Raes, D., Phong, T. A., and Loi, H. V. 2005. Environmental and socio-economic impacts of institutional reforms on the agricultural sector of Vietnam Land suitability assessment for Robusta coffee in the Dak Gan region. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 105:59-76.
Author's Keywords: irrigation, Vietnam, robusta coffees, institutional reforms, agro-ecological decline |
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Dahlquist, RM, Whelan, MP, Winowiecki, L, Polidoro, B, Candela, S, Harvey, CA, Wulfhorst, JD, McDaniel, PA, and Bosque-Perez, NA. 2007. Incorporating livelihoods in biodiversity conservation: A case study of cacao agroforestry systems in Talamanca, Costa Rica. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION 16:2311-2333.
Author's Keywords: Indigenous peoples, risk, banana, cocoa, Bribri, Cabecar, institutional support, land use decisions, Meso-American Biological Corridor, Musa, monoculture, organic agriculture, plantain, Theobroma cacao ACSC Keywords: ecosystems, forest, diversity, plantations, MONILIOPHTHORA-RORERI, CENTRAL-AMERICA, FREQUENCY |
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Denskus, Tobias. 2007. Peacebuilding does not build peace. Development in Practice 17:656-662.
Author's Keywords: aid, Conflict and Reconstruction, Social Sector ACSC Keywords: economic development, social conflict, conflict management, LANGUAGE & languages, Institutional ethnography, JARGON (Terminology), TERMS & phrases, LEXICON (Linguistics), PEACE-building |
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Dietz, T., Ostrom, E., and Stern, P. C. 2003. The struggle to govern the commons. Science 302:1907-1912.
ACSC Keywords: scale, management, biodiversity, sustainability, institutions, design principles, human ecology, boundaries, fisheries, irrigation systems, pool resources, diversity, governance systems, the commons, adaptive governance |
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Dorji, Lam, Webb, Edward L., and Shivakoti, Ganesh P. 2006. Forest property rights under nationalized forest management in Bhutan. Environmental Conservation 33:141-147.
Author's Keywords: institutions, incentives, sokshing ACSC Keywords: property rights, forest, Bhutan |
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Dovers, S. 2004. "Embedded scales: Interdisciplinary and institutional issues," in Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, pp. 1-12. Canberra, Australia.
ACSC Keywords: scale, interdisciplinary, institution |
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Dowie, M. 2005. Conservation refugees: When protecting nature means kicking people out. Orion :16-27.
ACSC Keywords: protected areas, national parks, institutionalization, alliance networks |
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Eade, Deborah. 2007. Editorial. Development in Practice 17:467-470.
ACSC Keywords: World Bank, economic development, international agencies, LANGUAGE & languages, Institutional ethnography, JARGON (Terminology), EDITORIALS |
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Eade, Deborah. 2007. Capacity building: Who builds whose capacity?. Development in Practice 17:630-639.
Author's Keywords: Latin America, methods, civil society, aid, the Caribbean ACSC Keywords: non-governmental organizations, capacity building, economic development, partnership, Economic assistance, Institutional ethnography, LEXICON (Linguistics), NONPROFIT organizations |
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Edwards, Meredith. 2002. Public sector governance: Future issues for Australia. Australian Journal of Public Administration 61:51.
ACSC Keywords: trade-offs, public participation, competition in participatory institutions, tradeoffs in governance |
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Evans, K. E. and Klinger, T. 2008. Obstacles to bottom-up implementation of marine ecosystem management. Conservation Biology 22:1135-1143.
Author's Keywords: conservation, policy, institutions, landscape, science, ecosystem management, uncertainty, conservation planning, Stakeholder Involvement, MODEL, challenges, marine ecosystem-based management |
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Evans, Peter. 2004. Development as institutional change: The pitfalls of monocropping and the potentials of deliberation. Studies in Comparative International Development 38:30-52.
ACSC Keywords: economic development, organizational change, ECONOMICS -- Sociological aspects, INSTITUTIONAL economics, SAVING & investment, STRATEGIC planning |
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Eyben, Rosalind. 2007. Harmonisation: how is the orchestra conducted?. Development in Practice 17:640-646.
Author's Keywords: aid ACSC Keywords: economic development, ECONOMIC policy, Economic assistance, LANGUAGE & languages, Institutional ethnography, JARGON (Terminology), GOVERNMENT aid, FINANCIAL aid, COORDINATION (Human services) |
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Faith, D. P. and Walker, P. A. 2002. The role of trade-offs in biodiversity conservation planning: Linking local management, regional planning and global conservation efforts. Journal of Biosciences 27:393-407.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, planning, hotspots, trade-offs, millennium assessment, opportunity cost, selection, areas ACSC Keywords: ecosystem, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, integrating conservation, selection, areas, PNG, Papua New Guinea, institutional analysis |