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A game model of people's participation in forest management in Northern India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

WIETZE LISE
WIETZE LISE
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

People have a marginal role in managing forests located in the vicinity of their villages in Northern India. This situation is scrutinized in this paper by studying strategic play of forest users. Thereto, a 1 versus n−1 game of people's participation in forest management is estimated for three institutional and historical distinct cases at the State and village level. Critical discount factors are derived to verify whether incentives exist for villagers to mutually participate in managing commonly used forests. This paper finds such incentives in varying degrees for games at the State level and for games in 23 of the 32 considered villages.

Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 2005 , pp. 217 - 240
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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