Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of four components of social capital on farmers’ participative behaviour in collective actions for constructing and operating small-scale groundwater irrigation systems on the Guanzhong Plain, Shaanxi Province, China....

Abstract Urbanization is a process in which separated and dispersed property rights become concentrated in a specific location. This process involves a large volume of contracts to redefine and rearrange various property rights, producing various and high transaction costs. Efficient...

We use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to estimate the relative efficiency of the current strategy for each player in a game by taking the spatial distribution of strategies as input and the total payoff as output. Based on the optimal value of the DEA model, we present a DEA...