Gender Differences in Social Capital and Collective Action: Does Social Identity Matter in Joint Forest Management?

Attitudes and cooperation: does gender matter in community-based forest management?

“…Moreover, JFMCs (like Mahuldanga), where the majority of people hold positive attitudes and trust others more, have devised context-dependent conservation mechanisms (like the policy of ‘ harvest less to patrol less ’ designed especially for distant users) that not only restrict forest use but also resolve resource conflicts and thus reduce transaction costs (Ray and Bhattacharya, 2011). Further, gender differences in community-level networks have affected men's and women's access to social resources including forest and non-forest incomes, and hence pro-social behaviors (Ray et al , 2016). Therefore, household attitudes and pro-social behaviors are context dependent.…”