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Part III: Cross-Scale Linkages and Dynamic Interactions
Pages 259-262

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From page 259...
... The essence of drama, both as a situation or a series of events involving intense conflict of forces and as stories told through action and dialogue, is embodied in the issues brought to light by Young and Berkes in their respective chapters. Together, these chapters also function as a bridge between earlier chapters in this volume that center on individuals or individual institutions and the following section that focuses on new and emerging issues in research involving common-pool resources and common property management regimes.
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From page 260...
... Young's analysis is concerned primarily with vertical, functional interplay among local, national, and international institutions, but as is pointed out in the concluding chapter of this volume, horizontal interactions are becoming increasingly important in the current global context. Young specifically examines vertical interplay in two distinct areas terrestrial and marine ecosystems and the contending positions of national and local institutions and the relationships between international regimes and individual nation states.
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From page 261...
... . These, he believes, provide a meaningful way to integrate social and natural systems and facilitate movement toward a theory of cross-scale institutional linkages.
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