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A comprehensive theoretical synthesis of the various success factors required to successfully and sustainably manage natural resources,
Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources offers a quantitative model to predict the success of natural resource management.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 The high importance of natural resources
- 1.2 Research question and goals
- Chapter 2: State of Research
- 2.1 What are fundamental biological mechanisms of cooperation?
- 2.2 What drives cooperation in laboratory experiments?
- 2.3 Common-pool resources
- 2.4 A primer on social-ecological systems
- 2.5 Potential success factors for sustainable management of social-ecological systems
- Chapter 3: Data
- 3.1 Common-pool resource database
- 3.2 Nepal irrigation institution study database
- 3.3 International forestry resources and institutions database
- 3.4 Comparability of databases
- 3.5 Data preparation
- Chapter 4: Methods
- 4.1 Introducing the three statistical methods used
- 4.2 Operationalizing the success factors via a new indicator system
- Chapter 5: Results and Discussion
- 5.1 Synthesis of success factors
- 5.2 Results for the common-pool resource data
- 5.3 Results for the Nepal irrigation institution study data
- 5.4 Results for the international forestry resources and institutions data
- 5.5 Results for a combined full model
- 5.6 Robustness and sensitivity analyses
- Chapter 6: Discussion and Conclusion
- 6.1 Final assessment
- 6.2 New findings
- 6.3 Summary
- 6.4 Outlook
- Chapter 7: Appendix
- References
- Index
About the author
Ulrich Frey is a senior researcher at the German Aerospace Center and a lecturer in ecology and natural resource management at the University of Giessen. At DLR, he is responsible for modeling renewable energies. Frey holds two PhDs, and his current research is focused on natural resource management and cooperation to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Summary
A comprehensive theoretical synthesis of the various success factors required to successfully and sustainably manage natural resources, Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources offers a quantitative model to predict the success of natural resource management.
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It is my hope that others will look at this and be inspired to work with their colleagues to, for example, collect more comparable data with consistent data collection protocols.
