How Fit Turns into Misfit and Back: Institutional Transformations of Pastoral Commons in African Floodplains

dc.contributor.authorHaller, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorFokou, GIlbert
dc.contributor.authorMbeyale, Gimbage
dc.contributor.authorMeroka, Patrick
dc.coverage.countryZambia, Cameroon, Tanzaniaen_US
dc.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-13T15:45:17Z
dc.date.available2013-05-13T15:45:17Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstract"We enlarge the notion of institutional fit using theoretical approaches from New Institutionalism, including rational choice and strategic action, political ecology and constructivist approaches. These approaches are combined with ecological approaches (system and evolutionary ecology) focusing on feedback loops and change. We offer results drawn from a comparison of fit and misfit cases of institutional change in pastoral commons in four African floodplain contexts (Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania (two cases)). Cases of precolonial fit and misfit in the postcolonial past, as well as a case of institutional fit in the postcolonial phase, highlight important features, specifically, flexible institutions, leadership, and mutual economic benefit under specific relations of bargaining power of actors. We argue that only by combining otherwise conflicting approaches can we come to understand why institutional fit develops into misfit and back again."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalEcology and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthMarchen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber1en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume18en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/8813
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectflood managementen_US
dc.subjectgovernance and politicsen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional changeen_US
dc.subjectpastoralismen_US
dc.subject.sectorGrazingen_US
dc.titleHow Fit Turns into Misfit and Back: Institutional Transformations of Pastoral Commons in African Floodplainsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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