An Institutional Analysis of Local Level Common Pool Woodstock Governance and Management: Implications for Environmental Policy

Abstract

"This chapter uses the Institutional Design and Analysis (IAD) framework to examine a policy problem concerning governance and management of common pool woodstocks in Mali's Fifth Region. The fall of the Malien Second Republic in 1991 posed, among many other issues, the problem of who should take responsibility for controlling access to and use of the country's woodstocks. The essay assesses one solution to that problem now being evolved by a group of thirteen communities south of the Niger River's Inner Delta."