Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Common-pool resources, such as local forests, are often at risk of overuse, but community monitoring can help mitigate overuse, according to a collection of articles in the Sustaining the Commons: ...

When government or nonprofit organizations encourage a community's involvement in the managing of local environmental resources, the accountability of local leaders to the citizenry increases and the ...

Policymakers and academics often identify institutional boundaries as one of the factors that shape the capacity of jurisdictions to manage natural resources such as water, forests, and scenic lands.

Bichsel, C., G. Fokou, A. Ibraimova, U. Kasymov, B. Steimann, and S. Thieme. 2010. “Natural resource institutions in transformation: The tragedy and glory of the ...

Researchers argue that thinking of street trees as a "common-pool resource" can help lead to better management of an under-appreciated community asset. There's little debate that, when a tree falls ...