Contrasting social-ecological scenarios can help stakeholders envision potential futures and navigate change and uncertainty. Scenario developers integrate stakeholder perceptions into story lines to increase scenario relevance and plausibility while relying on archetypes of change from scenario...

This paper reports the main findings from a multi-country research project designed to develop a better understanding of the performance of community-managed rural water supply systems in developing countries. Data was collected from households, village water committees, focus groups of village...

We examine the impact of institutional investment on Tobin's Q for the period 2004 to 2008. We provide further evidence of the heterogeneity of various institutional owners' willingness to monitor by examining their corporate holdings. We isolate a special role for the four failed banks:...