Browsing by Author "Dannenberg, Astrid"

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Cooperative Behavior and Common Pool Resources: Experimental Evidence from Community Forest User Groups in Nepal
(2015) Bluffstone, Randy; Dannenberg, Astrid; Martinsson, Peter; Jha, Prakash; Bista, Rajesh
"This paper examines whether cooperative behavior by respondents measured as contributions in a one-shot public goods game correlates with reported pro-forest collective action behaviors. All the outcomes analyzed are costly in terms of time, land, or money. The study finds significant evidence that more cooperative individuals (or those who believe their group members will cooperate) engage in collective action behaviors that support common forests, once the analysis is adjusted for demographic factors, wealth, and location. Those who contribute more in the public goods experiment are found to be more likely to have planted trees in community forests during the previous month and to have invested in biogas. They also have planted more trees on their own farms and spent more time monitoring community forests. As cooperation appears to be highly conditional on beliefs about others’ cooperation, these results suggest that policies to support cooperation and strengthen local governance could be important for collective action and economic outcomes associated with forest resources. As forest management and quality in developing countries is particularly important for climate change policy, these results suggest that international efforts such as the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation should pay particular attention to supporting governance and cooperation at the local level."
Three Necessary Conditions for Establishing Effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene
(2014) Norström, Albert V.; Dannenberg, Astrid; McCarney, Geoff; Milkoreit, Manjana; Diekert, Florian; Engström, Gustav; Fishman, Ram; Gars, Johan; Kyriakopoolou, Efthymia; Manoussi, Vassiliki; Meng, Kyle; Meitan, Mark; Sanctuary, Mark; Schlüter, Maja; Schoon, Michael
"The purpose of the United Nations-guided process to establish Sustainable Development Goals is to galvanize governments and civil society to rise to the interlinked environmental, societal, and economic challenges we face in the Anthropocene. We argue that the process of setting Sustainable Development Goals should take three key aspects into consideration. First, it should embrace an integrated social-ecological system perspective and acknowledge the key dynamics that such systems entail, including the role of ecosystems in sustaining human wellbeing, multiple cross-scale interactions, and uncertain thresholds. Second, the process needs to address trade-offs between the ambition of goals and the feasibility in reaching them, recognizing biophysical, social, and political constraints. Third, the goal-setting exercise and the management of goal implementation need to be guided by existing knowledge about the principles, dynamics, and constraints of social change processes at all scales, from the individual to the global. Combining these three aspects will increase the chances of establishing and achieving effective Sustainable Development Goals."