Articles

2017

• Lueck, Dean. 2017. "Property Institutions and the Limits of Coase." Journal of Institutional Economics, published online May 10.
• Lugovskyy, Volodymyr, Daniela Puzzello, Andrea Sorensen, James Walker, and Arlington Williams. 2017. “An Experimental Study of Finitely and Infinitely Repeated Linear Public Goods Games.” Games and Economic Behavior 102 (March): 286–302.
• Shackelford, Scott. 2017. "How Companies Can Stay Ahead of the Cybersecurity Curve." The Conversation, March 20.

2016

• Wright, Glenn, Krister Andersson, Clark Gibson, and Tom Evans. 2016. “Decentralization Can Help Reduce Deforestation When User Groups Engage with Local Government.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(52): 14958–63. [See also IU Newsroom, December 12, 2016]
• Journal Special Issue: "Elinor Ostrom's Contribution to Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Studies." Edited by Brenda Bushouse, Brent Never, and Rob Christensen. Supplement to Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 45(4S) (August 2016).
• Farmer, James R., Sara Minard, and Cliff Edens. 2016. “Local Foods and Low-Income Communities: Location, Transportation, and Values.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 6(4) (Summer): 41–54.
• Larsson, Jesper. 2016. “Conflict-Resolution Mechanisms Maintaining an Agricultural System: Early Modern Local Courts as an Arena for Solving Collective-Action Problems within Scandinavian Civil Law.” International Journal of the Commons 10(2).
• Farmer, James, Jacob Brenner, Michael Drescher, Stephanie Dickinson, and Eric Knackmuhs. 2016. “Perpetual Private Land Conservation: The Case for Outdoor Recreation and Functional Leisure.” Ecology and Society 21(2): 46.
• Ruseva, Tatyana, James Farmer, and Charles Chancellor. 2016. “Networking for Conservation: Social Capital and Perceptions of Organizational Success among Land Trust Boards.” Ecology and Society 21(2): 50.
• Lueck, Dean, and Jonathan Yoder. 2016. “Clearing the Smoke from Wildfire Policy: An Economic Perspective.” PERC Policy Series, no. 56. Bozeman, MT: Property and Environment Research Center (PERC).
• Brondizio, Eduardo S., and Francois-Michel Le Tourneau. 2016. “Environmental Governance for All: Involving Local and Indigenous Populations is Key to Effective Environmental Governance.” Science 352(6291): 1272–73.
• Alston, Lee J., Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. 2016. “Why Countries Transition? The Case of Brazil, 1964–2016.” Atlantic Economic Journal 44(2): 197–224.
• Farmer, James R., and Megan E. Betz. 2016. “Rebuilding Local Foods in Appalachia: Variables Affecting Distribution Methods of West Virginia Farms.” Journal of Rural Studies 45 (June): 34–42.
• Farmer, James R., Zhao Ma, Michael Drescher, Eric G. Knackmuhs, and Stephanie L. Dickinson. 2016. “Private Landowners, Voluntary Conservation Programs, and Implementation of Conservation Friendly Land Management Practices.” Conservation Letters (March), DOI:10.1111/conl.12241.
• Farmer, James R., Charles Chancellor, Jacob Brenner, James Whitacre, and Eric G. Knackmuhs. 2016. “To Ease or Not to Ease: Interest in Conservation Easements among Landowners in Brown County, Indiana.” The Professional Geographer (February), DOI:10.1080/00330124.2015.1129910.
• Alston, Lee, and Bernardo Mueller. 2016. “Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014.” In Diverse Development Paths and Structural Transformation in the Escape from Poverty, ed. Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson, 181–205. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Carugati, Federica, Josiah Ober, and Barry R. Weingast. 2016. “Development and Political Theory in Classical Athens.” Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 33(1): 71–91.
• Carugati, Federica. 2016. “Development and Classics.” Eidolon, March 28.
• Blanco, Esther, Tobias Haller, Maria Claudia Lopez, and James M. Walker. 2016. “The Tension between Private Benefits and Degradation Externalities from Appropriation in the Commons.”Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 125 (May): 136–47.
• Widney, Sarah, Burnell C. Fischer, and Jess Vogt. 2016. “Tree Mortality Undercuts Ability of Tree-Planting Programs to Provide Benefits: Results of a Three-City Study.” Forests 7(3): 65.
• Watkins, Shannon Lea, Sarah K. Mincey, Jess Vogt, and Sean P. Sweeney. 2016. “Is Planting Equitable? An Examination of the Spatial Distribution of Nonprofit Urban Tree-Planting Programs by Canopy Cover, Income, Race, and Ethnicity.” Environment and Behavior, OnlineFirst March 17, 1–31.
• Basurto, Xavier, Esther Blanco, Mateja Nenadovic, and Björn Vollan. 2016. “Integrating Simultaneous Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior into Theories of Collective Action.” Science Advances (March 4).
• Betz, Megan Elizabeth, and James Robert Farmer. 2016. “Farmers’ Market Governance and Its Role on Consumer Motives and Outcomes.” Local Environment, DOI:10.1080/13549839.2015.1129606.

2015

• Vogt, Jess, Shannon Lea Watkins, Sarah Widney, and Burney Fischer. 2015. “The Need to Standardize At-Planting Data.” Arborist News (December): 26–31.
• DeCaro, Daniel A., Marco A. Janssen, and Allen Lee. 2015. “Synergistic Effects of Voting and Enforcement on Internalized Motivation to Cooperate in a Resource Dilemma.” Judgment and Decision Making 10(6) (November): 511–37.
• Vogt, Jess, Richard J. Hauer, and Burnell C. Fischer. 2015. “The Costs of Maintaining and Not Maintaining the Urban Forest: A Review of the Urban Forestry and Arboriculture Literature.”Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 41(6) (November): 293–323.
• Hauer, Rich, Jess Vogt, and Burnell C. Fischer. 2015. “Growing Arboriculture and Urban Forestry: One Student at a Time.” Arborist News 24(5) (October): 68–71.
• Vogt, Jess, Burnell C. Fischer, and Richard J. Hauer. 2015. “Urban Forestry and Arboriculture as Interdisciplinary Environmental Science: Importance and Incorporation of Other Disciplines.”Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 6(2): 371–86.
• Cole, Daniel. 2015. “The Problem of Shared Irresponsibility in International Climate Law.” InDistribution of Responsibilities in International Law, ed. André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs, 290–320. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Frey, Ulrich, and Michael Cox. 2015. “Building a Diagnostic Ontology of Social-Ecological Systems.”International Journal of the Commons 9(2) (September): 595–618.
• Taylor, Keith. 2015. “Learning from the Co-Operative Institutional Model: How to Enhance Organizational Robustness of Third Sector Organizations with More Pluralistic Forms of Governance.” Administrative Sciences 5(3): 148–164.
• Alston, Lee, and Bernardo Mueller. 2015. “Towards a More Evolutionary Theory of Property Rights.” Iowa Law Review 100(6) (August): 2255–2273.
• Baldwin, Elizabeth, Camille Washington-Ottombre, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Daniel Cole, and Tom Evans. 2015. “Polycentric Governance and Irrigation Reform in Kenya.” Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 29(2): 207–25.
• Allen, Barbara. 2015. “An Undertow of Race Prejudice in the Current of Democratic Transformation: Tocqueville on the ‘Three Races’ of North America.” In Tocqueville’s Voyages: The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time, ed. Christine Henderson, 242–275. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund.
• Sabetti, Filippo. 2015. “Tocqueville’s Voyage of Discovery from Sicily to America.” In Tocqueville’s Voyages: The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time, ed. Christine Henderson, 337–64. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund.
• Craiutu, Aurelian. 2015. “Tocqueville and Eastern Europe.” In Tocqueville’s Voyages: The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time, ed. Christine Henderson, 390–424. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund.
• Cole, Daniel H. 2015. “‘Economic Property Rights’ as ‘Nonsense upon Stilts’: A Comment on Hodgson.” Journal of Institutional Economics 11(4):  725–30.
• Bixler, R. Patrick, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Orleans Mfune, and Hassan Roba. 2015. “The Political Ecology of Participatory Conservation: Institutions and Discourse.” Journal of Political Ecology 22: 164–182.
• Wright, Glenn D., Krister Andersson, Clark Gibson, and Tom Evans. 2015. “What Incentivizes Local Forest Conservation Efforts? Evidence from Bolivia.” International Journal of the Commons 9(1) (March): 322–346. {Winner of IJC’s 4th annual Ostrom Memorial Award for Most Innovative Paper of the Year–2015}
• Leslie, Heather M., Xavier Basurto, et al. 2015. “Operationalizing the Social-Ecological Systems Framework to Assess Sustainability.” PNAS 112(19): 5979-5984.
• Hauer, Richard J., Jessica M. Vogt, and Burnell C. Fischer. 2015. “The Cost of Not Maintaining the Urban Forest.” Arborist News 124(1): 12–16.
• Ruseva, Tatyana B., Tom P. Evans, and Burnell C. Fischer. 2015. “Can Incentives Make a Difference? Assessing the Effects of Policy Tools for Encouraging Tree-Planting on Private Lands.” Journal of Environmental Management 155 (May): 162–70.
• Vogt, Jessica M., Graham Epstein, Sarah K. Mincey, Burnell C. Fischer, and Paul McCord. 2015. “Putting the ‘E’ in SES: Unpacking the Ecology in the Ostrom Social-Ecological System Framework.” Ecology and Society 20(1): 55. [online].
• Farmer, James R., Vicky Meretsky, Doug Knapp, Charles Chancellor, and Burney C. Fischer. 2015. “Why Agree to a Conservation Easement? Understanding the Decision of Conservation Easement Granting.” Landscape and Urban Planning 138 (June): 11–19.
• Cole, Daniel H. 2015. “Advantages of a Polycentric Approach to Climate Change Policy.” Nature Climate Change 5(2) (February): 114–18.
• Vogt, Jessica M., Shannon Lea Watkins, Sarah K. Mincey, Matthew S. Patterson, and Burnell C. Fischer. 2015. “Explaining Planted-Tree Survival and Growth in Urban Neighborhoods: A Social-Ecological Approach to Studying Recently-Planted Trees in Indianapolis.” Landscape and Urban Planning 136 (April): 130–43. [See also “Planted-Tree Survival and Growth in Urban Neighborhoods,” ACTrees, January 2015.]
• Blanco, Esther, Maria Claudia Lopez, and James M. Walker. 2016. “The Opportunity Costs of Conservation with Deterministic and Probabilistic Degradation Externalities.” Environmental and Resource Economics 64(2): 255–73. First online January 2015.
• McCord, Paul, Michael Cox, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, and Tom Evans. 2015. “Crop Diversification as a Smallholder Livelihood Strategy within Semi-Arid Agricultural Systems Near Mount Kenya.” Land Use Policy 42 (January): 738–750.

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