Decentralization, Participation, and the Environment

Abstract

"The research will focus on forests and wildlife as its two major renewable environmental resources. Forests and wildlife are the linchpin of livelihood for literally hundreds of millions of poor resource users. They form among the most visible arenas in which changing governmental actions unfold. But equally importantly, a comparative examination of these two types of resources also promises to provide a valuable opportunity to generate innovative theoretical findings about how varaitions in resource characteristics affect institutional success, and how shifts in the locus of environmental decision making affect resource governance outcomes."