From Sandoz to Salmon: Conceptualizing resource and institutional dynamics in the Rhine watershed through the SES framework

International Journal of the Commons

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 361-395

  Villamayor Tomas, Sergio ^a,b   Thiel, Andreas ^a   Fleischman, Forrest D ^c   Ibarra, Irene Perez ^d   van Laerhoven, Frank ^e  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Common Pool Resource theory; Pollution; Rhine; SESMAD; Transboundary watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907012233     PISSN: 18750281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18352/ijc.411     Document Type: Article

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