Centralized Common-Pool Management and Local Community Participation

Centralized common pool management and local community participation∗

Unrestricted access to common-pool resources leads to individually rational extraction levels that are suboptimally high from a social perspective. In an experimental setting, we analyze to what extent local community participation can enhance the effectivity of a centralized enforcement institution aimed at decreasing aggregate extraction. We hypothesize that, by letting the resource users vot...

Centralized and Decentralized Management of Local Common Pool Resources in the Developing World: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia

Centralized local and Distributed local Algorithms

We consider two models of computation: centralized local algorithms and local distributed algorithms. Algorithms in one model are adapted to the other model to obtain improved algorithms. Distributed vertex coloring is employed to design improved centralized local algorithms for: maximal independent set, maximal matching, and an approximation scheme for maximum (weighted) matching over bounded ...

Leadership, Coordination and Cooperation in Common-Pool Resource Management

“This person is at the heart of the system" said a Nepalese farmer about the leader of their irrigation system, "without him there would be no irrigation". There is ample empirical evidence of the importance of leadership for successful management of common-pool resources (CPRs), not least in dealing with the effects of various kinds of disturbances. However, it is hard to find a way to fit lea...

Public participation and willingness to cooperate in common-pool resource management: a field experiment with fishing communities in Brazil

The primary evidence about the factors determining successful self-governance of common-pool resources (CPR) has come from case studies. More recently, this observational evidence has been complemented by insights from economic experiments. Here we advance a third approach in which the role of local deliberation about the management of a fishery resource is investigated in a field experiment. U...