Innovation in natural resource management : the role of property rights and collective action in developing countries /

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Imprint:Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
Description:xvi, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:International Food Policy Research Institute
International Food Policy Research Institute (Series)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4801314
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Other authors / contributors:Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela.
ISBN:0801871425 (hard : alk. paper)
0801871433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Property Rights, Collective Action, and Technologies for Natural Resource Management: A Conceptual Framework
  • 3. Assessing the Relationships between Property Rights and Technology Adoption in Smallholder Agriculture: Issues and Empirical Methods
  • 4. The Role of Tenure in the Management of Trees at the Community Level: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses from Uganda and Malawi
  • 5. Measuring the Production Efficiency of Alternative Land Tenure Contracts in a Mixed Crop-Livestock System in Ethiopia
  • 6. Land Tenure and the Adoption of Agricultural Technology in Haiti
  • 7. Tribes, State, and Technology Adoption in Arid Land Management in Syria
  • 8. Land Dispute Resolution in Mozambique: Evidence and Institutions of Agroforestry Technology Adoption
  • 9. Between Market Failure, Policy Failure, and "Community Failure": Crop-Livestock Conflicts and Technology Adoption in Sri Lanka
  • 10. Organizational Development and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Central Honduras
  • 11. Collective Action in Space: Assessing How Cooperation and Collective Action Vary across an African Landscape
  • 12. Collective Action in Ant Control
  • 13. Institutions and the Intensification of Cattle-Feeding Techniques: A Village Case Study in Kenya's Coast Province
  • 14. Conclusions and Policy Implications
  • Contributors
  • Index