Heterogeneity, trust and common-pool resource management

Leadership, Coordination and Cooperation in Common-Pool Resource Management

“This person is at the heart of the system" said a Nepalese farmer about the leader of their irrigation system, "without him there would be no irrigation". There is ample empirical evidence of the importance of leadership for successful management of common-pool resources (CPRs), not least in dealing with the effects of various kinds of disturbances. However, it is hard to find a way to fit lea...

Analytical Framework for Dialogue on Common Pool Resource Management

Research on common pool resources has advanced considerably in recent years (Bromley, 1992). Many research studies have focused on specific situations at specific times and have generated a wealth of case-study material (collections of such case studies include Mc Cay and Acheson, 1987; Berkes, 1989; Bromley, 1992; Agrawal, 2001, has recently reviewed some of this material). Some research has a...

An intergenerational common pool resource experiment

Many renewable resources are in intergenerational common pools, exploited by one generation after another. In our experiment, the stock available to each generation depends on the extent of exploitation by previous generations and on resource’s growth rate, which is either ‘‘slow’’ or ‘‘fast.’’ Subjects show altruistic restraint in exploitation, but not enough to achieve the social optimum. The...

Property Rights and Natural Resource : Socio - Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implications of Common Property Resource Management

Payments or persuasion: common pool resource management with price and non-price measures∗

We use lab experiments to study policies that address common pool resource overuse. We look at a price mechanism, specifically a Pigouvian subsidy, and four non-price interventions. The non-price policies are information alone, information with a normative message, communication alone, and normative messages with communication allowed. In all experiment sessions, no intervention occurs in the f...