Property rights, institutional regime shifts and the provision of freshwater ecosystem services on the Pongola River floodplain, South Africa

This paper proposes a property rights perspective to interpret institutional regime shifts in the provision of freshwater ecosystem services. Institutional regime shifts are conceived as persistent changes in the structure and function of a system. Property rights are viewed as an important componen...

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Main Authors: Bimo Abraham Nkhata, Charles Breen, Duncan Hay, Melanie Wilkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) 2017-03-01
Series:International Journal of the Commons
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Online Access:https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/615