Governance and the commons in a multi-level world

The paper examines property regimes and common-pool resources. Using examples and case studies, the relative merits of private, community. and stare-based rights are detailed. The insights from the case studies and an analysis of institution costs…

The emergence of 'new commons' poses theoretical challenges that require empirical efforts and in-depth case studies. Three years of ethnographic work at an Ecuadorian coastal community brings us to propose the emergence of a new commons,…

ABSTRACT A new policy, Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries, is currently being discussed under the UNFCCC. This policy will necessarily involve multi-level and involve international, national and local level…

Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries…

The survival of the commons is closely associated with the potential to find ways to strengthen contemporary management systems, making them more re- sponsive to a number of complexities, like the dynamics of ecosystems and related, but often…

Governance, a little known political science concept until recent times, entered the center stage of policy debate in all countries towards the end of the last century. The three most prominent issues in governance discourse as it relates to…

We study a complementarity game with multiple populations whose members' offered contributions are put together towards some common aim. When the sum of the players' offers reaches or exceeds some threshold K, they each receive K minus their own…

This article examines whether multi-level governance (MLG) as a practice has been established in Sweden. It does so by dividing multi-level governance into vertical and horizontal dimensions. The article argues that there is a multi-level policy…

This article outlines contemporary changes in the governance of science policy in England and assesses the recent emergence of regional science policies. The early 2000s have been marked by substantial sub-national mobilization, representation and…

This study considers whether EU cohesion policy and related pre?accession instruments have contributed to the development of a more compound polity in Romania and, specifically, considers the extent to which there is a process of Europeanization…