Power and Common Property Resources Management - Softcover

Pérez-Cirera, Vanessa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659967475 ISBN 13: 9783659967474

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

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The role of inequality and its impact on collective action has become one of the dominant topics in the study of common property resources (CPR) management. To date, however, studies have mostly focused on the impacts of the economic aspects of inequality, namely asset or wealth distribution amongst the members of a group. Power distribution aspects have been largely overlooked. The book explores the potential for effective collective action focusing on a particular feature: power. It explores how power distribution, linked to the characteristics of officials and members of common property forest user groups, affects the likelihood that its members are able to solve over-extraction and underprovision problems related to its governance. The book shows that with greater inequality in the distribution of power within the group, those agents with more power, here considered as those exercising authority roles, are able to impose higher externalities on those with less power. The book carries an in depth study of ejidos and comunidades in La Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico.

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Dr. Pérez-Cirera coordinates the research agenda on environment at the recently created Research Centre for Equitable Development (EQUIDE) at Universidad Iberoamericana. She worked for WWF for 12 years holding management positions in Mexico and Europe. Her research interests center on global environmental change, power and equitable development.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3659967475
• ISBN 13: 9783659967474
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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