'Institutional Shopping' for Natural Resource Management in a Protected Area and Indigenous Territory in the Bolivian Amazon.

Focusing on an overlapping protected area and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon, this article discusses how indigenous people continue to negotiate access to natural resources. Using the theoretical framework of New Institutionalism, ethnographic data from participatory observations, and interviews with Takana indigenous resource users and park management staff, we identified four phases of institutional change. We argue that under the current institutionally pluralistic setting in the overlapping area, indigenous users apply “institutional shopping” to choose, according to their power and knowledge, the most advantageous institutional framework in a situation. Indigenous users strategically employed arguments of conservation, indigeneity, or long-term occupation to legitimize their claims based on the chosen institution. Our results highlight the importance of ideologies and bargaining power in shaping the interaction of individuals and institutions. As a potential application of our research to practice, we suggest that rather than seeing institutional pluralism solely as a threat to successful resource management, the strengths of different frameworks may be combined to build robust institutions from the bottom up that are adapted to the local context. This requires taking into account local informal institutions, such as cultural values and beliefs, and integrating them with conservation priorities through cross-cultural participatory planning.

1977 census of governments : volume 3, public employment : number 3, labor-management relations in State and local governments, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

Mode of access: Internet.

Referee's memorandum and award in the matter of: Whether further wage increases are justified ... in relation to employees represented by 15 cooperating railway labor organizations, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and railroads as represented by Eastern, Western and Southeastern carriers; Conference committees, before Paul N. Guthrie.

Mode of access: Internet.

Agreement 2000 between U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and National Immigration and Naturalization Service Council.

"M-203 N."

Labor-management relations in the southern textile industry : hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor-management Relations of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, eighty-first Congress, second session.

"Part 2."

Report of the Presidential Railroad Commission,

1. Index-digest to the record of the commission's hearings.--2. Paystructure study, railroad operating employees.--3. Studies relating to railroad operating employees.--4. Studies relating to collective bargaining agreements and practices outside the railroad industry.

Seminars on labor-management relations /

Seminars held in Washington, D.C.

Labor-management relations in the Federal Service : answers to questions about Executive Order 11491.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lee at Appomattox, and other papers,

Lee at Appomattox.--The treaty of Washington: before and after.--The British "change of heart".--An undeveloped function.--A plea for military history.--"Shall Cromwell have a statur?"

The Philadelphia printing industry, a case study.

Mode of access: Internet.

Short studies on great subjects,

[Ser. 1] The science of history. Times of Erasmus & Luther. The influence of the reformation on the Scottish character. The philosophy of Catholicism. A plea for the free discussion of theological difficulties. Criticism & the gospel history. The Book of Job. Spinoza. The dissolution of the monasteries. England's forgotten worthies. Homer. The lives of the saints. Representative men. Reynard the fox. The cat's pilgrimage. Fables: I. The lions & the oxen. II. The farmer & the fox. Parable of the breadfruit tree. Compensation.

Virginibus puerisque, and other papers,

Virginibus puerisque.--Crabbed age and youth.--An apology of idlers.--Ordered south.--Æs triplex.--El Dorado.--The English admirals.--Some portraits by Raeburn.--Child's play.--Walking tours.--Pan's pipes.--A plea for gas lamps.

Employee relations bibliography : public, non-profit, and professional employment : essay, annotated listing, indexes /

Mode of access: Internet.

Virginibus puerisque, and other papers /

Virginibus puerisque -- Crabbed age and youth -- An apology of idlers -- Ordered south -- Aes triplex -- El Dorado -- The English admirals -- Some portraits by Raeburn -- Child's play -- Walking tours -- Pan's pipes -- A plea for gas lamps.

The champagne standard,

The champagne standard.--American wives and English housekeeping.--Kitchen comedies.--Entertaining.--Temporary power.--The extravagant economy of women.--A modern tendency.--A plea for women architecs.--The electric age.-- Gunpowder or toothpowder.--The pleasure of patriotism.--Romance and eyeglasses.--The plague of music.--A domestic danger.--A study of frivolity.-- On taking oneself seriously.--Soft-soap.