Commons—resources used or governed by groups of heterogeneous users through agreed-
upon institutional arrangements—are the subject of one of the more successful research …

Solving humanity's social-environmental challenges calls for collective action by relevant
actors. Hence, involving these actors in the policy process has been deemed both …

Abstract Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) represent a popular strategy for
environmental protection, and tropical forest conservation in particular. Little is known …

This paper presents a diagnostic approach to the role and capacity of governments to
facilitate local collective action and alleviate environmental problems. The paper adds to a …

Like any organism, humanity constructs its niche and adapts to the rest of nature by
modifying available materials around them. In the era that some have dubbed the …

Environmental governance occurs through and is shaped by communication. We propose a
typology of public communication, classifying it by directionality (one-way or two-way) and …

Complex social-ecological systems (SES), especially systems with common pool resources,
often exhibit system dynamics characterized by emergence, where system properties cannot …

Many environmental problems represent social dilemma situations where individually
rational behaviour leads to collectively suboptimal outcomes. Communication has been …

Globally, small-scale gold mining (SSGM) is an important economic option for many rural
poor. It involves local uses of shared resources, like common-pool contexts for which self …

Metacognition, the ability to monitor and evaluate our own cognitive processes, confers
advantages to individuals and their own judgment. A more recent hypothesis, however …