Heterogeneity and Common Pool Resources: Collective Management of Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Naidu, Sirisha C.
Conference:	Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, the Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bali, Indonesia
Conf. Date:	June 19-23, 2006
Date:	2006
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2198
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources community forestry heterogeneity collective action cooperation
Abstract:	"This paper explores the role of group heterogeneity in collective action among forest communities in northwestern Himalayas. Based on data from 54 forest communities in Himachal Pradesh, India, this paper finds that heterogeneity has at least three dimensions: wealth, social identity and interest in the resource, and each may significantly affect collective actions related to natural resource management. However, their effects are far from simple and linear. The empirical results suggest that cooperation need not depend on caste parochialism, that very high levels of wealth heterogeneity can reduce cooperation, and that there can be a divergence between ability and incentive to cooperate which reduces the level of cooperation in the community."

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