The ambiguous impact of inequality on local resource management

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Date

1999

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Great Britain: Pergamon

Abstract

The impact of inequality on the ability of human groups to undertake successful collective action is investigated with special reference to overexploitation of common property resources. In voluntary provision problems, on the one hand, inequality has an ambiguous impact on feasibility of the efficient outcome even though better endowed agents contribute more to collective action. In regulated settings, on the other hand, inequality tends to reduce the acceptability of available regulatory schemes and, therefore, to make collective action more difficult.

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Common property resources, Natural resource management, Collective action, Community management, Inequality, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale

Citation

World Development 27(5): 773-788