Heterogeneity and Collective Management: Evidence from Common Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India

Naidu, Sirisha C.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.07.001

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“…We urge scholars to continue these endeavors with different methods and approaches. Water footprint of production-Green water 18 Water footprint of production-Blue water 19 Water footprint of production-Return flows Waste 20 Generation of hazardous waste Threatened native bird species as a percentage of total native species 28…”

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“…Accordingly, smaller groups will, on average, be more prone to cooperate as this feature facilitates coordination [16,46]. Similarly, heterogeneity has been shown to be a complex, yet important, factor for determining the outcomes in cooperation over natural resources [18,47]. As stated by Grafton and Knowles, "The greater the social divergence the lower is the opportunity for collective action that may help address environmental concerns" [17] (p. 340).…”

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“…Second, international policy discussions have recently focused explicitly on island states and their assumed progress in also coordinating natural resources; for instance, the need to protect the rich biodiversity of island states [13,14] and-as stated in the declaration from the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002-that island states "continue to take the lead in the path towards sustainable development" [15] (p. 41). Third, it has also been suggested that successful coordination in respect to natural resource management is facilitated by many of the factors typically characterizing island states, such as their size and remoteness, as will be discussed below [16][17][18][19]. Yet, to this date, no study has systematically investigated the general environmental performance of island states in a comparative perspective.…”

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Paradise Islands? Island States and Environmental Performance

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Island states have been shown to outperform continental states on a number of large-scale coordination-related outcomes, such as levels of democracy and institutional quality. The argument developed and tested in this article contends that the same kind of logic may apply to islands' environmental performance, too. However, the empirical analysis shows mixed results. Among the 105 environmental outcomes that we analyzed, being an island only has a positive impact on 20 of them. For example, island states tend to outcompete continental states with respect to several indicators related to water quality but not in aspects related to biodiversity, protected areas, or environmental regulations. In addition, the causal factors previously suggested to make islands outperform continental states in terms of coordination have weak explanatory power in predicting islands' environmental performance. We conclude the paper by discussing how these interesting findings can be further explored.

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“…They suggest that both inter-group and intra-group economic inequalities have consistently negative effects on forest outcomes, but effectively functioning local institutions for collective action could dampen these negative outcomes. The mixed, inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory findings may partly have resulted from their varying underlying assumptions and socio-economic contexts, leading Naidu to stress the need for making these assumptions explicit in empirical literature [26]. Coleman and Andersson, who find that the effect of heterogeneity is sensitive to the types of heterogeneity considered, note that this area of research remains one of the great puzzles in the social sciences [27].…”

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“…The explanation for positive association of gender conflicts with better forest conditions is that women are likely to be involved in decision making positions only after there is some conflict related to gender issues. Naidu's study that focuses on caste as a factor in social diversity, finds, on the contrary, that moderate levels of social diversity lead to lower collective action if it encourages the dominance of a particular caste, but high levels of social diversity reduce the likelihood of this dominance, and thus, people may not be averse to supporting collective goods that benefit diverse caste, ethnic, or other social groups [26] (p. 682). These studies show mixed results, and point out the need for further research on the nature of inequalities in question, the roles of mediating institutions, and the environmental outcomes commensurate with the above.…”

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Group Inequality and Environmental Sustainability: Insights from Bangladesh and Kenyan Forest Commons

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Abstract:The paper contributes to understanding the interactions of environmental and social dimensions of sustainability in situations of acute group inequalities. Using case studies of Mount Elgon in Kenya and Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh it shows the importance of ethnicity based inequalities in defining sustainability outcomes. The paper explores, first, the mechanisms through which dominant ethnic groups are able to exert influence on resource management at the expense of less powerful groups; and second, the consequences of ethnic inequalities for resource uses within ostensibly democratic systems. It combines information from social and political history with remote sensing data to explore causes, processes and patterns behind spatial trends in the study of forests. The paper concludes that efficacy of national democracy and its institutions in achieving positive environmental outcomes depends on the power relations among social groups, particularly in historically contested contexts. Further, environmental and social OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 1463 dimensions of sustainability cannot be treated separately and the issue of equity among groups, ethnic or otherwise, needs to be recognised in policies for sustainable development. The study points out the need for further research into integrating socio-political history with spatial data to better understand social and spatial distribution of policy impacts.

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Power in the Governance of Common‐Pool Resources: A comparative analysis of irrigation management decentralization in Turkey

Kadirbeyoğlu

Özertan

2015

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The global trend in common-pool resource (CPR) governance is to decentralize resource use management to local user groups. Since the survival and sustainability of self-governing organizations are closely linked to the satisfaction of its members, listening to users who have the largest stake in CPR sustainability is crucial. The literature on CPR governance has two shortcomings: its analyses are restricted to the local community, excluding higher institutional and government levels; and power asymmetry among users is neglected, even though it can undermine collective action and hinder effective CPR management. In this study, multiple governance levels were linked, and the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) frameworkwhich contextualizes how interactions among local actors lead to institutional outcomes that shape both individual and collective actionswas extended by controlling for the impact of power relations on institutional performance. The outcomes of irrigation management decentralization were assessed via three case studies on locally managed irrigation institutions from two provinces in Turkey. It was found that power asymmetries have a significant impact on user satisfaction across the cases, albeit in different directions. The implication of this finding is that, in contexts where land distribution is highly unequal, inequalities may have contradictory effects depending on how power operates and is reflected in CPR management.able to effectively manage common-pool resources (CPRs). In particular, the high operation and maintenance costs of CPR management caused financial problems that resulted in the collapse of topdown, centrally planned and managed systems (Meinzen-Dick, 2007). As an alternative to the prevailing

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Heterogeneity and Collective Management: Evidence from Common Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India

Cited by 48 publications

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Paradise Islands? Island States and Environmental Performance

Paradise Islands? Island States and Environmental Performance

Group Inequality and Environmental Sustainability: Insights from Bangladesh and Kenyan Forest Commons

Power in the Governance of Common‐Pool Resources: A comparative analysis of irrigation management decentralization in Turkey

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