Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 61-72Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.07.009
Keywords
Bolivia; Forestry; Rural development; Governance; Self-organization; Institutions
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- National Science Foundation [BCS-0527165, SES-0648447]
- USAID's SANREM-CRSP program
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1114984] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Scholarship on common-pool resource governance suggests that collective outcomes vary with the strength of the local arrangements for compliance monitoring. Following Elinor Ostrom's approach to question panaceas, we explore the possibility that there are multiple institutional designs can help sustain forests. We test this argument with data from a sample of 200 forest user groups in Bolivia and find broad empirical support for our propositions: Local monitoring can be an important predictor of forest governance performance, but focusing on monitoring alone can be misleading. Sometimes other aspects of the local governance system, such as self-organized rule making and sanctioning, are more important in explaining why some groups govern their forests more effectively than others. We also find that the more governance functions that communities decide to organize themselves, the more likely it is that local forests are sustained. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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