In the terminology of Habermas, management institutions having a communicative design that encourages moral discourse would have a higher degree of legitimacy than institutions having an instrumental design.
The author suggests a general framework for design of local groundwater management institutions based on participatory institutional format and determines the 'externalities' in local groundwater management.
This paper examines the operational rules in use and the presence of institutional design principles in long-enduring and dynamic customary fisheries management institutions in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Mexico.
Climate change, population growth, and weakly developed water management institutions in many of the world's dry communities have raised the importance of designing innovative water allocation methods that adapt to water supply fluctuations while respecting cultural sensitivities.
An autonomous monetary system in an urban precinct requires four elements: savings institutions, money multiplying institutions, risk management institutions for loss of value or liquidity, and moneychangers.
Within this structure, tribal efforts have significantly enhanced the fit between management institutions and natural systems.
The local P. juliflora management institutions should be developed in line with the existing local institutions on pasture management and should be recognized by federal and regional governments.
Bankruptcy law is a risk management institution, and such an institution should adopt more modern practices.
The model will be helpful in making management policies and designing the institutions, which is meaningful in both practice and theory.
The hybrid analytical framework developed for this analysis situates Ostrom's (1990) design criteria for co-management institutions in the broader context of the Sustainable Livelihood Framework.
