The fate of Easter Island: The limits of resource management institutions

Ecological Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 473-490

  Good, David H ^a   Reuveny, Rafael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EASTER ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 33744531323     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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