Highlights•Farmer decisions affect landscape's economy, ecology and life of its
inhabitants.•Farmer decisions may lead to harmful outcomes at individual or collectives' …

Abstract The Old World Vultures (OWV), constituting 16 species primarily in Africa, Europe
and Asia, are currently being driven to extinction mostly by anthropogenic activities …

Commons scholarship has improved our understanding of how to govern resources for
sustainability. However, it has also been critiqued for its focus on traits (eg well-defined …

Common-pool resource theory suggests that the direct participation of local natural resource
users in the management of common-pool resources can lead to effective management …

The contours of the collective action necessary to limit climate change remain difficult to
discern. In this context, societal corporatist political processes, fueled by crisis narratives …

Abstract The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), by setting
integrated ocean goals (IOGs), is expected to strengthen the means of implementation of the …

Collective action remains a fundamental approach to governing common pool resources,
and Ostrom's design principles (DPs) have been widely used for analyzing such …

This paper examines institutional collective action and transaction cost (TC) dilemmas in a
self‐organizing policy network involving federal, state, and municipal agencies for waste …

This paper explores how the commons foster the construction of an alternative technological
pathway premised on a shared vision for a sustainable future. First, I delineate the …

Collaborative management has developed as a main approach to solving complex
environmental problems such as diffuse water pollution from agriculture. This paper aims to …