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Case Study Groundwater, Agriculture, and Drinking Water Access in the Tulare Lake Basin
Groundwater extraction and contamination in the Tulare Lake Basin, with focus on agriculture and its impacts on access to drinking water in impacted communities. -
Citation Group feature and irrigation self-governance
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Case Study Gwembe Tonga land tenure, Zambezi Valley, Zambia
Arable land in this case, following Ostrom (2005: 24), is both a common pool resource and a public good. Bush land used for shifting cultivation is a common pool resource. Rights to this land belong to whoever clears it. There … -
Case Study Hanan Sayoc Irrigation, Quinua District, Peru
The Hanan Sayoc Irrigation System is located in the Province of Ayacucho in Peru. The resource appropriated related to the social dilemma is water for irrigation, which originates from the mountaintops and flows down to the fields through canals. The … -
Citation Has the vision of a gender quota rule been realized for community-based water management committees in Kenya?
Persisting gender inequities across political, economic, and public life have motivated global agendas to increase women’s leadership at all levels of society. Gender quotas offer one solution to encourage equitable gender representation in public decision-making by specifying a target number … -
Case Study Haskovo's Irrigation System A, southern Bulgaria
The Haskovo region is located along the southern border of Bulgaria near both Turkey and Greece. The four study sites contained within the case study are deliberately kept anonymous but are representative of seventeen village case studies conducted in three … -
Case Study Haskovo's Irrigation System B, southern Bulgaria
The Haskovo region is located along the southern border of Bulgaria near both Turkey and Greece. The four study sites contained within the case study are deliberately kept anonymous but are representative of seventeen village case studies conducted in three … -
Case Study Haskovo's Irrigation System C, southern Bulgaria
The Haskovo region is located along the southern border of Bulgaria near both Turkey and Greece. The four study sites contained within the case study are deliberately kept anonymous but are representative of seventeen village case studies conducted in three … -
Case Study Haskovo's Irrigation System D, southern Bulgaria
The Haskovo region is located along the southern border of Bulgaria near both Turkey and Greece. The four study sites contained within the case study are deliberately kept anonymous but are representative of seventeen village case studies conducted in three … -
Case Study Heterogeneity in the Commons: Hard Infrastructure and Its Effects on Collective Action and Public Goods Provisioning
We compare three artisanal fisheries (Lagoon fishery in Greece; Kembong fishery in Thailand; and the Green turtle fishery in Nicaragua) and tangentially draw on three small-scale irrigation systems (Tirunelveli and Kottapalle in South India, and Nabagram in Bangladesh) in order … -
Citation Heterogeneity in the Commons: Hard Infrastructure and its Effects on Collective Action and Public Goods Provisioning
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Citation Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall
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Case Study Historical forest common property regime, Slovakia, central Europe
The forestry sector has traditionally been a strong resort in most of Central European countries, as the forest covers approximately 30 – 40 % of the their territories. The management of forest resources is characterized by existence of a long … -
Citation How physical and social factors affect village-level irrigation: An institutional analysis of water governance in northern China
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Citation How to Review Case Studies - Quick Reference Guide
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Case Study Huaynacotas Community Irrigation System in Peru
The Huaynacotas community is located in the province of La Union, Department of Arequipa, in the southern highlands of Peru. The associated canal network spans elevations from 3,100 to 4,100 meters and encompasses a geographical area of 410 ha that … -
Citation Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies
There are widespread concerns that current trends in resource-use are unsustainable, but possibilities of overshoot/collapse remain controversial. Collapses have occurred frequently in history, often followed by centuries of economic, intellectual, and population decline. Many different natural and social phenomena have … -
Model Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies
HANDY is a 4-variable thought-experiment model for interaction of humans and nature. The focus is on predicting long-term behavior rather than short-term forecasting. Carrying Capacity is developed as a practical measure for forecasting collapses. A sustainable steady state is shown … -
Citation Hunting and Fishing Focus Among the Miskito Indians, Eastern Nicaragua
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Citation Hydraulic Fracturing as a Social-Ecological System: Robustness and Governance Implications of Development
Over the past decade, natural gas development on the Utica and Marcellus shale has increased substantially. Despite major growth in the industry nationwide, the federal government does little to regulate fracking leaving it up to individual states to pass legislation. …