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| Baur, Ivo; Chair of Human-Environment Relations, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich ; ivo.baur@geographie.uni-muenchen.de; Binder, Claudia R.; Chair of Human-Environment Relations, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; claudia.binder@geographie.uni-muenchen.de. |
| The common property meadows in the Swiss Alps have been managed by local self-organized governance systems since the Middle Ages, thus preventing their overuse. During the past century, socioeconomic developments, such as industrialization and rapid nonagricultural economic growth, have shifted employment opportunities from the agricultural sector towards the service sector. In the agricultural sector, this has led to less intensive use and maintenance of the meadows in the Alps and consequently to a reduction in biodiversity. We use the example of Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps to analyze how the governance system has adapted to these socioeconomic developments. We based our analysis on the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Common property pastures; Rules; SES; Social-ecological systems. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Brink, Lars. |
| Much confusion permeates discussions of the domestic support provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and in the ongoing Doha negotiations. The paper clarifies some conceptual distinctions with a view to dispelling some confusion, enhancing communication, and facilitating the representation of domestic support provisions in economic analysis. It distinguishes between classification of policy measures and measurement of support, between measures and support, among measures classified in various categories, between applied support and commitments, and between applied support that counts towards commitments and applied support that does not. It highlights certain issues, including the role of criteria in classifying policy measures (such as those... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: WTO; Agriculture; Domestic support; Doha; AMS; De minimis; Commitments; Rules; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7337 |
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