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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Nath, Sanchayan |
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Conference:
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Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge, the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Mt. Fuji, Japan |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-7 |
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Date:
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2013 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8941
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Forestry |
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Subject(s):
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forests
IFRI
social-ecological systems
leadership
IASC
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Abstract:
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"Studies on the role of leadership in collective-action situations, social dilemma situations or in commons related scenarios have been limited. Ostrom's SES (social-ecological) framework however identifies leadership/entrepreneurship variables as being strongly associated with successful collective action outcomes. Persha et al. (2011) observe that the 'causal pathways' and the 'complex relationship' between factors (that affect forest conditions) and the resulting social and ecological outcomes have not been systematically studied in empirical scholarly research. The research question that I seek to answer in this paper is - What is the effect of leadership on the trade-off between social and ecological outcomes in community managed forests? My study uses data collected by the IFRI (International Forestry Resources & Institutions) program between 1993 and 2008 from 108 forests across 13 countries. I find that 'User-group leadership' is strongly associated causally with 'Trade-off in Outcomes' irrespective of the contextual variables used."
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