This thesis examines the Islands Trust as an institutional experiment in environmental management. Evaluation is made of the performance of the Islands Trust and the overall institutional system, on the basis of objectives stated prior to and following the inception of the Trust. Public choice theory proves useful in explaining the behavior of the three principle categories of actors in the institutional system: voters, bureaucrats, and politicians. The objectives of the study are 1) to examine the extent to which the Trust has fulfilled the intent of the Islands Trust Act, and 2) to discover the factors which have contributed to this degree of success or failure. Initially a study is made of the legal and historical setting of resource ma...
In this dissertation, I examined two aspects of natural resource governance: collaborative policy ma...
In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can b...
Despite decades of donor support for the water sector, many small island developing states (SIDS) ha...
The Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia are widely recognized as having unique ecological and clim...
In the coastal zone, relationships between natural, social and economic processes are often intense....
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Inc...
This thesis evaluates how the management and protection of private lands in North America with impo...
Jurisprudence and international agreements have motivated increased recognition of Indigenous People...
The way that humans organize both resource access and resource use is vital to the management of nat...
This dissertation investigates the role of trust in predicting cooperation with a natural resources ...
Travel Industry has become the bread winner of many Island destinations across the globe. The practi...
Small island states have in recent decades been identified as particularly vulnerable to natural dis...
Island societies are states with distinct inherent characteristics and vulnerabilities. Their featur...
As researchers and policy-makers confront the challenges of and opportunities for improving natural ...
Collaborative natural resource governance is increasingly relied upon to resolve conflicts, generate...
In this dissertation, I examined two aspects of natural resource governance: collaborative policy ma...
In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can b...
Despite decades of donor support for the water sector, many small island developing states (SIDS) ha...
The Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia are widely recognized as having unique ecological and clim...
In the coastal zone, relationships between natural, social and economic processes are often intense....
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Inc...
This thesis evaluates how the management and protection of private lands in North America with impo...
Jurisprudence and international agreements have motivated increased recognition of Indigenous People...
The way that humans organize both resource access and resource use is vital to the management of nat...
This dissertation investigates the role of trust in predicting cooperation with a natural resources ...
Travel Industry has become the bread winner of many Island destinations across the globe. The practi...
Small island states have in recent decades been identified as particularly vulnerable to natural dis...
Island societies are states with distinct inherent characteristics and vulnerabilities. Their featur...
As researchers and policy-makers confront the challenges of and opportunities for improving natural ...
Collaborative natural resource governance is increasingly relied upon to resolve conflicts, generate...
In this dissertation, I examined two aspects of natural resource governance: collaborative policy ma...
In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can b...
Despite decades of donor support for the water sector, many small island developing states (SIDS) ha...