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Common Property And Collective Action: Cooperative Watershed Management In Haiti

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  • White, Thomas A.
  • Runge, C. Ford

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The paper is divided into four sections. First, watershed management in Haiti is presented as a problem of voluntary collective action in which small watersheds are the common responsibility of a group of users. Second, this situation is given formal expression as a "public goods" problem, in which obligations to contribute time and labor to the maintenance and management of watersheds are treated as conditional or contingent commitments to cooperate (rather than defect). Third, an empirical analysis is presented in which key economic and cultural factors are tested to determine those that best explain the individual propensity to cooperate and the conditions necessary for collective action to emerge. Fourth, we interpret these results in light of the model, and suggest some generalizations and extensions of theoretical and empirical research on common property and collective action.

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  • White, Thomas A. & Runge, C. Ford, 1992. "Common Property And Collective Action: Cooperative Watershed Management In Haiti," Working Papers 14377, University of Minnesota, Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:umciwp:14377
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.14377
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    1. White, Thomas A., 1994. "Policy Lessons From History And Natural Resource Projects In Rural Haiti," Working Papers 11892, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Training Project.
    2. Kurian, M., 2003. "Irrigation and collective action: a study in method with reference to the Shiwalik Hills, Haryana," IWMI Working Papers H044428, International Water Management Institute.
    3. Martin YELKOUNI, 2004. "Gestion communautaire et forêt de Tiogo au Burkina Faso," Working Papers 200415, CERDI.
    4. Coriat, Benjamin, 2013. "Le retour des communs," Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, Association Recherche et Régulation, vol. 14.

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