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Division of the Commons: A Partial Assessment of the New Institutional Economics of Land Rights
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This article is published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics.The article was published on 1998-08-01. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: New institutional economics & Commons.read more
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Social Capital and the Environment
Jules Pretty,Hugh Ward +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a typology describes the evolution of groups through three stages, and indicates what kinds of policy support are needed to safeguard and spread achievements in watershed, irrigation, microfinance, forest, and integrated pest management.
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Land policies for growth and poverty reduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of land policies in support of development, and poverty reduction, by setting out the results of recent research in a way that is accessible to a wide audience.
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Social Capital in Biodiversity Conservation and Management
Jules Pretty,David Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The knowledge and values of local communities are now being acknowledged as valuable for biodiversity conservation as discussed by the authors, and the value of social relations, in the form of trust, reciprocal arrangements, locally developed rules, norms and sanctions, and emergent institutions, has been shown to deliver a biodiversity dividend in many contexts.
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Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action: The Role of Institutions in Forest Management
Amy R. Poteete,Elinor Ostrom +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on research by scholars in the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research network which demonstrates that some forms of heterogeneity do not negatively affect collective action.
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Private and Common Property Rights
Elinor Ostrom,Charlotte Hess +1 more
TL;DR: The relative advantages of private property and common property for the efficiency, equity, and sustainability of natural resource use patterns have been debated in legal and economic literatures for several centuries as mentioned in this paper.
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
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Toward a Theory of Property Rights
TL;DR: In this paper, questions addressed to the emergence and mix of the components of the bundle of rights are prior to those commonly asked by economists, and they are answered by the authors.
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The conditions of agricultural growth
TL;DR: In this paper, Boserup argues that changes and improvements occur from within agricultural communities, and that improvements are governed not simply by external interference, but by those communities themselves using extensive analyses of the costs and productivity of the main systems of traditional agriculture.