ABSTRACT
Both terrestrial ecoregions are mountain areas. The case studies of the Alps and the Andes include an analysis of the social, economic and political settings, of government and nongovernment organizations, of the network structure, of property-rights systems, of operational, collective and constitutional-choice rules, as well as monitoring and sanctioning rules. The analysis of the Alpine ecoregion discusses both the Alpine Convention and the European Union’s strategy for the Alps, while the analysis of the Andean ecoregion discusses both the Andean Community and the Mountain Partnership’s Andean Initiative. The governance system of the Andean ecoregion is remarkably different from that of the Alps.
