Natural resources governance and conflicts: Retrospective analysis

Tourism And Natural Resources

Payout policy, agency conflicts, and corporate governance

We examine the effect of corporate governance on the use of dividends and repurchases, composition of payout, and inclusion of a pre-commitment feature in the payout policy. We find that dividend payout is decreasing in governance quality. Corporate governance has a mixed effect on repurchases: good external governance prompts managers to repurchase more and to use repurchases as the only form ...

Self-Governance and Forest Resources

Forest resources share attributes with many other resource systems that make difficult their governance and management in a sustainable, efficient, and equitable manner. While some ‘forests’ are small enough that fencing them or protecting their borders from intrusion is relatively easy, excluding beneficiaries from access and use of most forests is costly. The difficulty of exclusion creates t...

Ethics and Participation in Natural Resources Protection

Background: Public participation in decisions regarding natural resources is the easiest way to ‎preserve these resources. It seems that having human of conservation ethics of natural resources, ‎has affect on their participation in the preservation of natural resources. This survey research was ‎done to investigate the relationship between conservation ethics of natural resources and ‎particip...

Analysis of Entrepreneurial Skills of Agricultural and Natural Resources Students in University of Zabol

    The aim of this study was to analyze the entrepreneurial skills of Agricultural and Natural Resources students. The population was included 893 students of faculties of Agriculture, Water & Soil, and Natural Resources at University of Zabol and study sample was calculated 269 students using stratified random sampling. The data gathering instrument in this study was a questionnaire which its...