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Situated in the Nile Valley from Aswan to the Mediterranean, New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1050 B.C.) had an agrarian economy - almost entirely dependent on agriculture for subsistence. Because the climate was too dry for rain-fed farming, all agriculture was restricted …

The inshore cod trap fisheries discussed in this case are primarily located along the eastern and north shores of Newfoundland, Canada, encompassing an unknown geographical area.  The case study discusses the development of community-based institutions over time and then compares …

The exact location of the Malawi irrigation system is undisclosed due to anonymity concerns.  However, it is generally located in the administrative district of Kasungu in central Malawi and encompasses an unknown geographical area.  The case study involves a snapshot …

Nohwa-do and Bogil-do are South Korea's southernmost islands, located off the coast of the province of Jeollanam-do. They are connected by a bridge and share a reservoir in Bogil-do. The inhabitants of the two islands have to share water since Nohwa-do …

This model explores the long-term dynamic interaction between the exploitation of natural resources and population growth. This is a variant of Brander and Taylor (1998). The reference article, D'Alessandro (2007), gives the following description of the model. \"Two new assumptions …

Increasing human demands for ecosystem services due to climate change, population growth, poverty, lack of employment, tourism,and concomitant coastal property development threatens adaptive capacity in SouthAfrica’s coastlines.Adaptation strategies frequentlypropose ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) as a model for transformative change. However, several …

The Nyamaropa communal area encompasses a total of five villages located in the Nyanga District in Zimbabwe.  Beyond individual homestead plots and fields, the communities have access rights to an unspecified acreage of grazing/woodland commons that consist of miombo woodlands …

The resource appropriated from Oaig-Daya Irrigation System is water for irrigation, and the system consists of canals that deliver water from the Oaig-Daya Creek to the nearby farmlands in the neighboring barrios of Oaig-Daya and Parioc of the municipality Candon …

The resource appropriated from Obara Pond is water for irrigation, and the case takes place in the settlement of Niiike Buraku on the coastal plain of Okayama Prefecture in the Honshu island of Japan. This irrigation system is comprised of …

Open access publishing is located on the world wide web, accessible anywhere where there is both internet access and a capable computer. Open access publishing is directly related to the digital knowledge commons, which started with the advent of the …

OpenABM is a node in the CoMSES Network, providing a growing collection of tutorials and FAQs on agent-based modeling, a model library intended to provide a locus for authors and modelers to share their models, and forums for modeling-related discussions …

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The Florida oyster fishing communities are located on the Florida “panhandle” with approximately 300 kilometers of coastline on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The case study states that this is an open-access fishery but includes a limited …

The Alabama oyster fishing communities are located on the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 100 kilometers of coastline. The case study states that this is an open-access fishery but includes a limited amount of historic data on the development of …

The Louisiana oyster fishing communities are located on the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 400 kilometers of coastline in a straight line from the border of Texas on the west to the border of Mississippi on the east. The case …