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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Coleman, Eric A. |
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Conference:
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Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Hyderabad, India |
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Conf. Date:
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January 10-14 |
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Date:
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2011 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7109
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Sector:
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Forestry |
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Region:
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Africa
Central America & Caribbean
South America |
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Subject(s):
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property rights
community forestry
households
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Abstract:
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"This paper is in much the same vein as Coleman (forthcoming) except that I examine property rights not at the community level (i.e. rights held jointly by communities of forest users) but rather at private rights exercised by households within a community of users. Data is examined that assesses the likelihood that forest user households will rank forests as being more dense after a disturbance depending upon the property rights held by the household. I also examine the property rights each household has relative to three forest types: government-, community-, and privately-owned forests. The effects of household property rights at engendering favorable response to disturbance are expected to vary depending on the type of forest (as outlined in the next section). Data come from a cross-country household survey of forest users in Boliva, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda. These countries were selected to exploit the fact that each country has experienced widespread forest decentralization in recent years. In general, there is significant variation in the types of forest property rights held by different households both within and across countries. Since decentralization has been implemented in each country, there is significant variation in household property rights within and across the countries."
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