This chapter contains sections titled: The Purpose of This Book, Brief History of the Study of
the Knowledge Commons, Study of Traditional Commons, Knowledge as a Resource, The …

Forest ownership is changing in Europe. Reasons include recent institutional changes in
Eastern Europe, changing lifestyles of non-agricultural owners and afforestation. At present …

Cybersecurity is a broadly used term, whose definitions are highly variable, often subjective,
and at times, uninformative. The absence of a concise, broadly acceptable definition that …

Ecological economics is a way of rethinking the relationship between humans and the
environment and working out the implications of how we manage our lives and the planet …

Governance is concerned with the practice of making collective decisions. Governance
theory, as such, has both an explanatory dimension and an advisory character. This twin …

Considerable work has focused on Collaborative Consumption (CC) from a managerial
standpoint. Little academic research has been conducted into this specific concept. This …

This paper estimates econometric models of the socioeconomic drivers of urban land use
change in the Pearl River Delta, China. The panel data used to estimate the models are …

An increasingly popular view holds that institutions--in particular, the rule of law--are the
keys to unlocking the develo** world's full growth potential. But what exactly does this …

Ten case studies from seven major pastoral regions across six continents were studied in
this paper by conceptualizing three factors (agro-ecosystem resilience, livelihood options …

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet
how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and …