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Potentials and Constraints of Common Pasture Use – Field Experiments on Common Pool Resource Management in Azerbaijan and Georgia

International Journal of the Commons
Volume 14 (2020): Issue 1
By: Anja Salzer,  Regina Neudert and  Volker Beckmann  
Open Access
|Mar 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.953 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
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Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 31, 2018
Accepted on: Jan 23, 2020
Published on: Mar 3, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Comparative case studies,
common pool resources,
common management,
communication,
cooperation,
culture,
decision making,
degradation,
field experiments,
pasture scarcity,
participants performance,
rangelands

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