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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Birner, Regina; Gunaweera, Hasantha |
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Conference:
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The Commons in an Age of Globalisation, the Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe |
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Conf. Date:
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June 17-21, 2002 |
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Date:
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2002 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1005
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Sector:
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Land Tenure & Use
Social Organization
Theory |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
common pool resources
land tenure and use
collective action
grazing
agriculture
conflict
externalities
collective action
interest groups
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Abstract:
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"Using the case of the semi-arid zone of Southern Sri Lanka as an example, the paper shows that crop damages caused by grazing livestock can constitute an important obstacle to the adoption of available technologies for more sustainable land use. The paper considers crop damages as an externality problem and shows that the classical solutions to externalities-the neo-liberal, the interventionist solution and the communitarian solution-cannot be applied in the Sri Lankan case due to market failure, government failure and 'community failure.' The paper discusses collective action and bargaining between organized interest groups as an alternative solution and analyses the conditions which make such a solution work. The paper concludes that - in the Sri Lankan case - a decentralized system of government, a preferential voting system creating incentives for politicians, an institutionalized negotiation platform, and the facilitating role of intermediaries favored this solution."
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