Transferring Williamson's discriminating alignment to the analysis of environmental governance of social-ecological interdependence

Ecological Economics

Volumn 128, Issue , 2016, Pages 159-168

  Thiel, Andreas ^a   Schleyer, Christian ^b   Hinkel, Jochen ^c   Schlüter, Maja ^d   Hagedorn, Konrad ^e   Bisaro, Sandy ^c   Bobojonov, Ihtiyor ^f   Hamidov, Ahmad ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c Global Climate Forum (GCF)   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Institutional analysis; Socialecological; Systems; Transaction costs analysis; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESEARCH WORK; TRANSACTION COST; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

GERMANY;

CANIDAE;

EID: 84965103793     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.04.018     Document Type: Article

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