Despite many valuable lessons that have been learnt regarding resource and resource user attributes there are some relationships that have yet to be understood. One such confounding issue has been the impact of heterogeneity among the users of a communitybased natural resource. Traditional commons research has mostly assumed the prevalence of homogeneity among resource users, however, it is kno...

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This paper presents an incentive scheme to control agricultural non-point-source pollution. The analysis is based on a nested agent framework with three parties; farmers, a country’s government, and the governments of all countries that affect each other’s environmental quality. Unlike previous analysis of incentive schemes to control agricultural pollution, we suggest non-individual contracts ...

At the Berlin MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe) Conference in January 2007, I offered some general thoughts on the crafting of institutional arrangements to further the economic transformations now underway in Central and Eastern Europe. In that paper I observed that many countries are now in the “third wave” of institutional change [Bromley, 2007]. The first wave began du...