World Resources Institute

Self-Governance of Common-Pool Resources Under Rapid Urbanisation: The Case of Lake Hawassa, Ethiopia

Contemporary common-pool resource (CPR) theories recommend self-governance as an effective management approach. This article investigates the implications of rapid urbanisation on CPR self-governance, using Lake Hawassa in Ethiopia as a case study. Drawing on semi-structured inte...

A Semi-Empirical Method for Estimating All-Sky Photosynthetically Active Radiation from Sentinel-2 for High-Resolution Land Surface Analysis

Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is a fundamental driver of terrestrial photosynthesis and a key input for light use efficiency-based estimates of gross primary productivity (GPP). However, existing PAR products are typically designed for regional to global applications...