Measuring the potential for self-governance: an approach for the community-based management of the common-pool resources Academic Article

abstract

• 2015, Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services. All rights reserved. Self-governance can be a suitable instrument for the communitybased management of a common pool resource (CPR). Under self-governnce, individuals may organize themselves for the use of a CPR, a lake in our case study, to deal with problems of overexploitation and low profits that arise due to open access. Unlike most of previous research, which are ex-post in nature, this research explores the feasibility and desirability of carrying out an exante assessment of the potential for self-governance to manage a CPR. Taking a set of theoretical conditions, this research proposes a way to assess the CPR users perception on the adoption of self-governance. It represents a step toward understanding a priori whether self-governance would be feasible or not.

authors

• Woodward, Richard

published proceedings

• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE COMMONS

author list (cited authors)

• Colin-Castillo, S., & Woodward, R. T.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Colin-Castillo, Sergio||Woodward, Richard T

publication date

• January 2015

publisher

• Ubiquity Press  Publisher

published in

• International Journal of the Commons  Journal

keywords

• Common-pool-resources
• Community-based Management
• Self-governance

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.18352/ijc.490

start page

• 281

end page

• 305

volume

• 9

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.18352%2Fijc.490

user-defined tag

• 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions