Property Rights and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

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

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...

Natural resource use with limited-tenure property rights

We study the dynamic harvest incentives faced by a renewable resource harvester with insecure property rights. A resource ‘‘concession’’ is granted for a fixed duration, after which it is renewed (with a known probability) only if a target stock is achieved. Despite the insecurity of this property right, simple concessions contracts can be designed to induce first best harvest trajectories. We ...

Participatory Indicator Development for Sustainable Natural Resource Management

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...