BACKGROUND While population aging challenges Arab governments to ensure well-being in old age, knowledge translation is gaining support worldwide in evidence-based policymaking and service provision. This study examines the status of existing knowledge translation efforts of aging-related research in Arab countries and evaluates the additional role that institutional arrangements (such as minis...

Rural exodus is a significant issue for the livelihood of outback communities. Institutional arrangements structure the incentives for a community's viability and stability. This study investigated the institutional arrangements related to natural resource management and social processes in the Etheridge Shire (Queensland, Australia) through qualitative research and quantitative modelling. The ...

This paper examines transitions in living arrangement decisions of the seniors using the first six cycles of the Canadian longitudinal National Population Health Survey microdata. Transitions from independent to intergenerational and institutional living arrangements are uniquely analyzed using a discrete-time hazard rate multinomial logit modelling framework and accounted for unobserved indivi...

This keynote paper provides a control systems perspective of failed internationalised institutional arrangements. In the past years we have experienced dramatic international systems failure across important institutions. Banks, religious institutions and governmental systems have all experienced catastrophic crises which have proven difficult to assess and address. This paper examines these fa...

The paper looks at the global environment as a public good and as a sink for CO2emissions. It discusses problems to be solved in institutional arrangements to protect global environmental media and looks at criteria for allocating the costs of emission reduction and emission rights. It analyzes institutional mechanisms that stabilize CO2-agreements and reviews the Kyoto Protocol, the perspectiv...

Institutional arrangements are key drivers of the use of common-pool resources (CPR). The analysis of existing arrangements requires a framework that allows research to describe a case study systematically and diagnose the institutional setting. Based on a sound understanding of current institutions the question of what effects alternate arrangements would have becomes evident. This step requir...