Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal

Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal

National governments in almost all developing countries have begun to decentralize policies and decision making related to development, public services, and the environment. Existing research on the subject has enhanced our understanding of the effects of decentralization and thereby has been an effective instrument in the advocacy of decentralization. But most analyses, especially where enviro...

Property Rights, Collective Action, and Technologies for Natural Resource Management

Deg ra da tion of natu ral re sources has be come a global prob lem that threat ens the live li hood of mil lions of poor peo ple. Many prom is ing tech nolo gies for natu ral re source man age ment are avail able to ad dress these prob lems, but farm ers and oth ers of ten fail to adopt them. Why is this? Al though many fac tors can be iden ti fied, lack of se cure prop erty rights and col lec...

Property Rights and Natural Resource: Socio-economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implications of Common Property Resource Management in Nepal

The relationship between socio-economic heterogeneity and distributional implications of community-based resource management is becoming a growing concern in issues of local level collective action. This study tries to examine the contested role of heterogeneity and equity of resource distribution in community-based property rights regimes in reference to community-based forest management in Ne...

Resources, Rights and Cooperation: A Sourcebook on Property Rights and Collective Action for Sustainable Development

Suicide and property rights in India

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