کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
91552 159812 2013 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Effective support for community resource management
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک جنگلداری
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Effective support for community resource management
چکیده انگلیسی

A popular alternative to state-led resource management is community resource management. This decentralised approach is potentially more efficient, but is not necessarily stable. We study this issue using coalition theory, arguing that some of the conditions for effective community resource management may induce the formation of a coalition of community members – rather than the community as a whole – that cooperate in resource management. We employ a classical model specification from the literature on international environmental agreements to analyse the stability of such coalitions. A novel observation that we make in this paper is that coalitions may be the target of intervention in order to boost community conservation effort. To analyse this possibility, we extend the model with a payment to the coalition, which can be interpreted as a payment for the provision of ecosystem services. Our results show that such payments can stabilise larger and otherwise unstable coalitions, and thereby increase community conservation effort. Moreover, we solve the selection problem of optimal payment by an external agent and we show how this optimal payment relates to the communities' opportunity costs of conservation. These results are relevant for the theoretical literature on coalition theory, the empirical literature on community resource management, and the policy debate on the potential impact of incentive mechanisms for community-based conservation.


► We analyse the stability of community resource management using coalition theory.
► We find that external payments can stabilise larger and otherwise unstable coalitions.
► We solve the external agent's selection problem of the optimal payment.
► A coalition of households can be an effective mode to organise conservation effort.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Forest Policy and Economics - Volume 37, December 2013, Pages 94–103
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