Search for dissertations about: "Tragedy of the Commons"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words Tragedy of the Commons.
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1. The Tragedy of the Global Commons in Public International Law
Abstract : To what extent does public international law that generally applies in our global commons enable a tragedy of the commons in the global commons? The theory of the tragedy of the commons describes the plights of overuse and degradation that shared resources face when subject to, inter alia, a freedom of use, and the theory is often applied to criticize certain positive emanations of public international law in the global commons. As the theory is routinely used in the context of economic approaches to law and commons, the method employed is a positive economic analysis of international law. READ MORE
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2. Gift and Exchange in the Reciprocal Regime of the Miskito on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 20th Century
Abstract : This dissertation is a historical-comparative analysis of a conflict that has developed in the economic system of the Miskito in the 20th century, concerning the use of common property resources. The study is based on empirical material collected in a Miskito/Creole village on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua in the 1990s. READ MORE
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3. Shell Age Economics : Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia
Abstract : This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social and cognitive perspectives. The overarching issues explored are (1) the significance of marine gathering in the past and present, (2) how seaweeds and marine invertebrates have been perceived, classified, named and used, (3) how they have been implicated in social relations, and (4) how the integration of the islands into the modern world system has affected the marine environment and the exploitation of its resources. READ MORE
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4. Natural resource management in an institutional disorder : the development of adaptive co-management systems of moose in Sweden
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the development of adaptive co-management systems and of the role the State plays in promoting or hampering such a development. Natural resource issues are often characterised by conflicting interests and in general implemented by conventional, top-down management systems. READ MORE
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5. Environmental Research as a Tool for Change : Theoretical and methodological implications from two case studies producing knowledge for environmentally sustainable housing
Abstract : The theme of this thesis is environmental research as a tool for change. In the first part of the thesis a “Situation of Opportunity” is studied, i.e. a situation when the opportunities to reduce negative environmental impacts are larger than usual. READ MORE
