Institutions and collective action: Does heterogeneity matter in community-based resource management?

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 426-445

  Adhikari, Bhim ^a   Lovett, Jon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL PLANNING;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33646351782     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380600576201     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abraham, A. and Platteau, J. P. (2000) Participatory development in the presence of endogenous community imperfections. In. University of Namur. Working paper of Department of Economics and CRED
2. Adhikari, B. (2005) Poverty, property rights and collective action: understanding the distributive aspects of common property resource management Environment and Development Economics, 10, pp. 1-25.
3. Adhikari, B. and Lovett, J. (2006) Transaction costs and community-based natural resource management in Nepal Journal of Environmental Management, 78, pp. 5-15.
4. Adhikari, B. and Di Falco, S. and Lovett, J. (2004) Household characteristics and forest dependency: Evidence from common property forest management in Nepal Ecological Economics, 48(2), pp. 245-257.
5. Agrawal, A. (2001) Commons property institutions and sustainable governance of resources World Development, 29(10), pp. 1649-1672.
6. Alesina, A. and Baqir, R. and Easterly, W. (1999) Public goods and ethnic divisions Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(4), pp. 1243-1284.
7. Baland, J. and Platteau, J.(1996) Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is there Role for Rural Communities?. Oxford: FAO/Clarendon Press.
8. Baland, J. and Platteau, J. (1999) The ambiguous impact of inequality on local resource management World Development, 27(5), pp. 773-788.
9. Bardhan, P. (1993) Symposium on management of local commons Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7(4), pp. 87-92.
10. Bardhan, P.(1999) Distributive conflicts, collective action, and institutional economics. In. Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
11. Bardhan, P.(2000) Water community: An empirical analysis of cooperation on irrigation in south India. In. Department of Economics, University of California.
12. Bardhan, P. and Dayton-Johnson, J.(2000) Heterogeneity and commons management. In. Berkeley: Department of Economics, University of California, USA.
13. Bardhan, P. and Dayton-Johnson, J.(2002) Unequal irrigators: heterogeneity and commons management in large-scale multivariate research. In Drama of the Commons. (pp. 87-112). The National Academic Press.
14. Beteille, A. (ed.) (1983) Equality and Inequality: Theory and Practice. (Delhi: Oxford University Press).
15. Cooke, P.(2000) Changes in intrahousehold labor allocation to environmental goods collection: A case study from rural Nepal 1982 and 1997. In. International Food Policy Research Institute. FCND discussion paper No.87
16. Dayton-Johnson, J. (2000) Determinants of collective action on the local commons: A model with evidence from Mexico Journal of Development Economics, 62, pp. 181-208.
17. Filmer, D. and Pritchett, L. (1999) The effect of household wealth on educational attainment Population and Development Review, 25(1), pp. 85-120.
18. Folbre, N.(1994) Who Pays for the Kids: Gender and the Structures of Constraint. New York: Routledge.
19. Gunatilake, H. (1998) The role of rural development in protecting tropical rainforests: Evidence from Sri Lanka Journal of Environmental Management, 53, pp. 273-292.
20. Heltberg, R. (2001) Determinants and impact of local institutions for common resource management Environment and Development Economics, 6, pp. 183-208.
21. Hussein, K. and Montagu, S.(2000) Hill Agricultural Research Project (HARP) Nepal - Lessons for the policy, institutions and processes dimensions of the sustainable livelihoods approach. In. London, UK: Department for International Development.
22. Kabeer, N.(1994) Reversed Realities: Gender, Hierarchies in Development Thought. London: Verso.
23. Kanbur, R.(1992) Heterogeneity, distribution and cooperation in common property resource management. In. Washington DC: The World Bank. Background paper for the 1992 World Development Report
24. Kant, S.(1998) Community management: An optimal resource regime for tropical Forests. In. Department of Economics, University of Toronto.
25. Kant, S. (2000) A dynamic approach to forest regimes in developing economies Ecological Economics, 32, pp. 287-300.
26. Karaivanov, A.(2001) Heterogeneity, returns to scale and collective action. In. Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
27. Keohane, R. O. and Ostrom, E. (eds) (1995) Local Commons and Global Interdependence, Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains. (London: Sage Publications).
28. Khwaja, A. I. (2000) Leadership, rights and project complexity: determinants of collective action in the maintenance of infrastructural projects in the Himalayas. In. Harvard University. Unpublished paper
29. Lam, W. F. (1998) Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal: Institutions, Infrastructure, and Collective Action. (Oakland California: ICS Press).
30. Lise, W. (2000) Factors influencing people's participation in forest management in India Ecological Economics, 34, pp. 379-392.
31. McKean, M. (1992a) Success on the commons: A comparative examination of institutions for common property resource management Journal of Theoretical Politics, 4(3), pp. 247-281.
32. McKean, M.(1992b) Management of traditional common lands (Iriachi), in Japan. In Making the Commons Work, Theory, Practice and Policy. San Francisco CA: ICS Press.
33. Molians, J. (1998) The impact of inequality, gender, external assistance and social capital on local-level collective action World Development, 26(3), pp. 413-431.
34. Moser, C.(1993) Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice, and Training. London: Routledge.
35. Olson, M.(1965) The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
36. Poats, S.(1991) The role of gender in agriculture development: Issues in agriculture 3. In. Washington DC: Consultative Group in International Agriculture Research.
37. Przeworski, A.(2003) Institutions matter, paper presented for meeting on institutions, behaviour, and outcomes, CEBRAP. In. Sao Paulo 2003
38. Richards, M. and Kanel, K. and Maharjan, M. and Davies, J.(1999) Towards participatory economic analysis by forest user groups in Nepal, ODI, Portland House. In. London: Stag Place.
39. Seabright, P. (1993) Managing local commons: Theoretical issues in incentive design The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7(4), pp. 113-134.
40. Shvetsova, O. (2003) Endogenous selection of institutions and their exogenous effects Constitutional Political Economy, 14, pp. 191-212.
41. Somanathan, E. and Prabhakar, R. and Mehta, B.(2002) Collective action for forest conservation: Does heterogeneity matter?. In. New Delhi: Indian Statistical Institute.
42. Tang, S. (1991) Institutional arrangements and the management of common-pool resources Public Administration Review, 5, pp. 42-51.
43. Tang, S.(1992) Institutions and Collective Action: Self-Governing in Irrigation Systems. San Francisco: ICS Press.
44. Todaro, M.(2000) Economic Development. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
45. Uphoff, N.(1998) Community-based natural resource management: Connecting micro and macro processes, and people with their environments. In Proceedings of the international workshop on community-based natural resource management. Washington DC: The World Bank.
46. Varughese, G.(1999) Villagers, bureaucrats, and forests in Nepal: designing governance for complex resource. In. Indiana University. Unpublished PhD Dissertation
47. Varughese, J. and Ostrom, E. (2001) The contested role of heterogeneity in collective action: Some evidence from community forestry in Nepal World Development, 29(5), pp. 747-765.
48. Velded, T. (2000) Village politics: Heterogeneity, leadership and collective action Journal of Development Studies, 36(5), pp. 105-134.
49. Wade, R.(1994) Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
50. Zak, P. and Knack, S. (2001) Trust and growth The Economic Journal, 111(470), pp. 295-321.