Do Elinor Ostroms principles of successful institutions illuminate the challenges to participation in groundwater governance in South Africa? What limits are there to using Ostrom's principles to analyse groundwater governance challenged in South Africa?

Elinor Ostrom's research has opened up a field of study into locally developed institutions for commons governance and has successfully disproved the notion that it is impossible for individuals to address collective problems cooperatively (Ostrom, 1993:110). South Africa has a semi-arid countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rust, Jennifer
Other Authors: Butler, Anthony
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22969