— Decentralization has emerged as an important instrument of environmental and development policy in the last two decades. Presumed benefits of environmental policy decentralization depend in significant measure on broad participation in the programs that governments create to decentralize decision making related to resource management. This paper uses data from protected areas in Nepal’s Terai...

To identify the allergy problem of a 36-year old swimming instructor, who experiences heavy itching and rashes whenever she comes in contact with pool water. Patch tests were performed with European standard series and materials from the work floor. A positive patch test to aluminum chloride and flocculant was observed. Occupational dermatitis is, based on a contact allergy to aluminum chloride...

Many studies of experimental economics have produced outcomes which contradict the predictions of Nash equilibrium, which relies heavily upon the premise of selfishness of an individual. In the games involving contexts of social conflicts represented by the prisoners’ dilemma game, the experiments yields outcomes quite different from what are predicted by the conventional wisdom. In order to fi...

Institutional arrangements are key drivers of the use of common-pool resources (CPR). The analysis of existing arrangements requires a framework that allows research to describe a case study systematically and diagnose the institutional setting. Based on a sound understanding of current institutions the question of what effects alternate arrangements would have becomes evident. This step requir...

When crops are exposed to drought there is commonly an increase in solute-pool of the plant tissue. A series of experiments were conducted in 1994 and 1995 in the University of Hohenheim, Germany, to evaluate whether drought-induced solute accumulation per se will improve drought resistance, to determine the species of active osmotica involved, and to identify alternative mechanisms in grain le...

Paper to be delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Resilience Alliance to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, August, 16-18 2001 and at a Conference on “Inequality, Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability,” to be held at the Sante Fe Institute, September 21-23, 2001. Support of the Resilience Alliance, the National Science Foundation and the European Union (contract nr. IST-2000-26016)...

As environmental degradation increases around the globe, especially in relation to open access resources, new policies to augment sustainability have to be invented. The purpose of this paper is to provide a most concrete example of some of the difficulties involved, by means of examining recent data about the so-called Helcom regime for the Baltic Sea. The findings include that the heralded th...

This article seeks to explain the dynamics of resource depletion in North Korea’s fishery. We utilize insights from common-pool (CPR) literature and show how theories comparative politics that why states sometimes do not formalize property rights but prefer their informal exercise can be fruitfully applied Utilizing a process tracing methodology, we demonstrate Korean state possesses necessary ...