Governing large-scale social-ecological systems: Lessons from five cases

International Journal of the Commons

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 428-456

  Fleischman, Forrest D ^a   Ban, Natalie C ^b,c   Evans, Louisa S ^b,d   Epstein, Graham ^e   Villamayor Tomas, Sergio ^e,g   Garcia Lopez, Gustavo ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common pool resource theory; Design principles; Fisheries; Forests; Marine protected areas; Pollution; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907017670     PISSN: 18750281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18352/ijc.416     Document Type: Article

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