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My senior thesis for economics is finished and published on the website. A couple of you have asked to read it and now it's here. The topic is international rivers, the Nile and Mekong in particular, but the concept is common-pool resources. CPRs are a variety of resources whose usage is shared amongst several parties. The subject becomes complicated because the repercussions of certain actions or usage do not fall on the perpetrators of the action in the first place. Rivers are a classic example because users upstream, whether for agriculture, fishing, or otherwise, end up impacting the outcomes of users downstream. Over the course of time, stakeholders have sought to find ways to reconcile differences using economics, politics, biology, ecology, etc. and that is the matter at hand here. The document can be found in the Writing Samples page as well as in the link below. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
The Curious Task of Shared Goods: International Waterways and their Treatment as Archetypal Common-Pool Resources
Acknowledgements:
Kristi Ellis, Morningstar Academy
Dr. Michael Rizzo, University of Rochester
Dr. Stephen L.S. Smith, Gordon College
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My senior thesis for economics is finished and published on the website. A couple of you have asked to read it and now it's here. The topic is international rivers, the Nile and Mekong in particular, but the concept is common-pool resources. CPRs are a variety of resources whose usage is shared amongst several parties. The subject becomes complicated because the repercussions of certain actions or usage do not fall on the perpetrators of the action in the first place. Rivers are a classic example because users upstream, whether for agriculture, fishing, or otherwise, end up impacting the outcomes of users downstream. Over the course of time, stakeholders have sought to find ways to reconcile differences using economics, politics, biology, ecology, etc. and that is the matter at hand here. The document can be found in the Writing Samples page as well as in the link below. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
The Curious Task of Shared Goods: International Waterways and their Treatment as Archetypal Common-Pool Resources
Acknowledgements:
Kristi Ellis, Morningstar Academy
Dr. Michael Rizzo, University of Rochester
Dr. Stephen L.S. Smith, Gordon College
