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Madécasse: Competing With A 4x Fairtrade Business Model, Scott Marshall, Darrell Brown, Bex Sakarias, Min Cai

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Brett Beach and Tim McCollum, co-founders of Madécasse, spent two years as Peace Corps volunteers in Madagascar. During that time, they fell in love with the country and its people. Recognizing the need of the Malagasy for stable jobs and fair wages and the connection between poverty and environmental destruction, Brett and Tim discussed possibilities for a social enterprise in the country.

Madagascar presents a beautiful yet challenging place to operate a business. It has a wide range of flora and fauna, approximately 70% of which are found nowhere else on Earth and it produces coffee, vanilla, sugar, cotton, pepper, …

Global Land Governance: From Territory To Flow?, Thomas Sikor, Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Bebbington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Bradford S. Gentry, Carol Hunsberger, Anne Marie Izac, Matias E. Margulis, Tobias Plieninger, Heike Schroeder, Caroline Upton

Geography

This article reviews recent research on contemporary transformations of global land governance. It shows how changes in global governance have facilitated and responded to radical revalorizations of land, together driving the intensified competition and struggles over land observed in many other contributions to this special issue. The rules in place to govern land use are shifting from 'territorial' toward 'flow-centered' arrangements, the latter referring to governance that targets particular flows of resources or goods, such as certification of agricultural or wood products. The intensifying competition over land coupled with shifts toward flow-centered governance has generated land uses involving new forms …

Customs Law, Jean-Renee Broussard, Gabriel Arriaga Callejas, Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, Melanie A. Frank, Brandi B. Frederick, Lawrence M. Friedman, Gwendolyn Hassan, Andrew Hudson, Greg Kanargelidis, Daniel L. Kiselbach, Cynthia Y. Liu, Matt Nakachi, Mercedes Christina Ozcan, Kathleen M. Porter, Peter Quinter, Turenna Ramirez Ortiz, David Salkeld, Lauren M. Sigg, Donald J. Sorochan Q.C., Maureen E. Thorson, Richard E.K. Truman, Rogelio Cruz Vernet

The International Lawyer

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International Trade, Cortney O'Toole Morgan, Christopher H. Skinner, Pablo M. Bentes, Stephen W. Brophy, Johny Chaklader, Robert E. Defrancesco Iii, Laura El-Sabaawi, Geoffrey M. Goodale, Derick G. Holt, Bernd G. Janzen, José Francisco Mafla, Matthew T. Mcgrath, Laurel Parker, Christen Price, Christine J. Sohar Henter

The International Lawyer

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Greece In Crisis: An Interview With Despina Lalaki, Despina Lalaki

Publications and Research

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Spatial And Temporal Habitat Use Of An Asian Elephant In Sumatra, Arnold F. Sitompul, Curtice R. Griffin, Nathaniel D. Rayl, Todd K. Fuller

Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series

Increasingly, habitat fragmentation caused by agricultural and human development has forced Sumatran elephants into relatively small areas, but there is little information on how elephants use these areas and thus, how habitats can be managed to sustain elephants in the future. Using a Global Positioning System (GPS) collar and a land cover map developed from TM imagery, we identified the habitats used by a wild adult female elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in the Seblat Elephant Conservation Center, Bengkulu Province, Sumatra during 2007–2008. The marked elephant (and presumably her 40–60 herd mates) used a home range that contained more than expected …

Maritime Security Issues In An Arc Of Instability And Opportunity. Security Challenges, Quentin Hanich, Sam Bateman

Quentin Hanich

The Pacific Arc of islands and archipelagos to the north and east of Australia has been characterised both as an ‘arc of instability’ and as an ‘arc of opportunity’. It is the region from or through which a threat to Australia could most easily be posed, as well as an area providing opportunities for Australia to work on common interests with the ultimate objective of a more secure and stable region. Maritime issues are prominent among these common interests. This article identifies these issues and their relevance to Australia’s maritime strategy. It suggests measures Australia might take to exploit the …

Bridging Vs. Bonding Social Capital And The Management Of Common Pool Resources, Kathy Baylis, Yazhen Gong, Shun Wang

Kathy Baylis

Social capital can facilitate community governance, but not all social capital is alike. We distinguish bonding social capital (within a village) from bridging social capital (between villages), and we compare their effects on the management of a common pool resource. We develop a theoretical model and show that bonding social capital can improve common pool resource management, while the effect of bridging social capital is mixed. We test these findings using primary data from Yunnan, China on social capital and firewood collection on communal lands. We find that bonding social capital decreases the consumption of the common pool resource, and …