My essay focuses on the marginalised people whose livelihoods depend on gathering,
sorting, transporting and selling garbage in India's huge informal economy, livelihoods now …

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial
settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest …

Budget constraints prohibit protected area managers (PAMs) in developing countries from
completely deterring extraction and the resulting resource degradation. Because benefits …

Illegal extraction of forest resources is fought, in many developing countries, by patrols that
try to make this activity less profitable, using the threat of confiscation. With a limited budget …

This paper examines the interaction of spatial and dynamic aspects of resource extraction
from forests by local people. Highly cyclical and varied across space and time, the patterns …

Purpose The purpose of the study is to elicit risk factors that are peculiar to public-private
partnership (PPP)-procured mass housing in Nigeria from the expert perspectives in …

We present two models of perpetrators' decision-making in extracting resources from a
protected area. It is assumed that the authorities conduct surveillance to counter the …

Economic inequality determines collective goods provisioning as well as common pool
resources outcomes. However, there is little theoretical or empirical understanding of how …

Since the unregulated legal status of land results in the violation of its legal and economic
security, intensified land marginalization, a decrease in local government income caused by …

Communal land and resources are regarded as problematic; as inefficient and
unsustainable with a looming “tragedy of the commons” an ever-present possibility. This …