Examining the Interaction Among CPR Governance Principles: Boundary Problems, Collective Choice and Conflict Resolution in Interstate Watersheds

Abstract

"The goal of the project is to advance the institutional literature on the governance of common pool resources. It will explore the interactions among boundary definition, collective choice processes, and conflict resolution mechanisms and how those interactions affect the durability of common pool resource governing arrangements. In doing so, this study can bridge theoretical insights from a theory of common-pool resource management with Scharpfs (1997) institutional analysis framework to better understand the structure of institutional decision situations and how those structures address the resolution of collective resource management problems..."