Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau's protected area network

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 260-272

  Gruby, Rebecca L ^a   Basurto, Xavier ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common pool resources; Environmental governance; Human geography; Institutional analysis; Pacific Islands; Protected areas; Scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALAU; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SCALE UP;

EID: 84880980859     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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