Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

Gregorio, Monica Di; Hagedorn, Konrad; Kirk, Michael; Korf, Benedikt; McCarthy, Nancy; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Swallow, Brent

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“…The IAD framework facilitates analysis and testing hypotheses about people's behavior in diverse situations at multiple levels of analysis and involves analysis of how rules, physical and material conditions, and attributes of community affect the structure of action arenas, the incentives that individuals face, and the resulting outcomes [24]. Context, action arena, and outcomes have been often recognized as key elements upon which collective action across different scales has been analyzed [28][29][30][31], especially with respect to social-ecological systems, including broad natural resource boundaries. Contextual factors include attributes of resources and users, socio-economic factors, cultural and environmental factors, as well as governance arrangements [24,26].…”

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“…Among the other factors discussed in the literature, shared norms and social capital, especially with respect to past successes working together, facilitate collective action in new arenas. On the other hand, heterogeneity has been found to either facilitate or hinder collective action, depending on the situation [29][30][31][32]. Since the study scope considers the participation of multiple actors in collective activities and is not limited to one type of resource users, the effect of heterogeneity is relevant to the study context.…”

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Fostering Collective Action in a Village-Tank Cascade-Based Community in Sri Lanka: An Illusion or Reality?

Ariyawanshe,

Fujimura,

Abeyrathne

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Collective action has inevitable importance for sustainable governance of shared resource systems with interactions across multiple social and spatial scales. Village irrigation tanks in Sri Lanka have been recognized as shared resource systems sustainably managed through the collective action of local communities throughout history. Increased population pressure on shared resources and expanded socio-economic relationships over time have led to extended resource-based interactions between people. This occurred beyond village tanks within the broader scale of Village-Tank-Cascade Systems (VTCS), in which village tanks are constituent sub-units. This demands the cross-scale collective action of local communities for sustainable governance of VTCS, which has become a challenging endeavor in the current context. This case study explores the dynamics of collective action across multiple social and spatial scales within a VTCS by identifying existing collective action arenas, drivers, and limitations for the local community to engage in collective action through a mixed-methods approach with reference to the Medde Rambewa cascade system in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Findings reveal that collective action arenas of VTCS-based local communities occur in response to common challenges posed by disturbed environmental equilibria and as a part of people’s lifestyle, with outcomes contributing to climate change adaptation, livelihood support, risk or emergency preparedness, and promoting social identity. Economic incentives, rules, and fines imposed by Farmers’ Organizations (FOs) were found to be drivers of currently adopted collective activities at the scale of village tanks. While collective action prevails beyond the scale of individual village tanks when governed by community institutions, shared resource uses, and social relationships among actors, individualistic resource uses occur in the absence of legitimate regulatory mechanisms. The study highlights the need for legitimate, scale-sensitive solutions to long-overdue common problems experienced by VTCS-based communities in order to foster meaningful collective action on a broader scale.

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Section: Deriving At the Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering Collective Action in a Village-Tank Cascade-Based Community in Sri Lanka: An Illusion or Reality?

Ariyawanshe,

Fujimura,

Abeyrathne

et al. 2023

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Beyond the Biophysical

German¹,

Ramisch²,

Verma³

2010

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this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.Cover illustration: Verma 2009, farmer in front of broken tractor on her recently allocated commercial farm, Zimbabwe.Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L.Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) To Luis Navarro , Scientist, provocateur, mentor, and friend You are truly missed vii ForewordThe history of development intervention is marked by multiple failures at dialogue between analysts and practitioners; an impasse caused in part by the failure to reconcile disparate professional languages. In Kenya, where critical thought for this book was generated, a cause célèbre in livestock intensification has been the ill-fated Maasai Project of the 1960s and 1970s. The wider East Africa region too is known for its repeated failures to sustain projects in agricultural extension, water management, and drought preparedness. It is against this backdrop, and the ever-increasing calls for better dialogue between analysts, practitioners, and indeed local people, that Nairobi hosted a workshop in 2003 on theoretical advances in ecological anthropology and related disciplines. Some contributions from that conference are included here, along with other, more case-study focused papers written in response to the conference's conclusion that analysts need to move from critique to application.Although the attempted dialogue between development practitioners and social scientists has always been more prominent in the established fields of agriculture, natural resource management, and health, we have recently witnessed important attempts to extend the dialogue into new areas like architecture, mining, humanitarian aid, and conflict resolution, especially through the interest in "local knowledge" for development. But, and this is crucial, future progress in these newer areas hinges on new advances in cross-disciplinary and analyst-practitioner dialogue within the more established fields. With reference to the biophysical, this volume explores some fundamental themes in the dialogue -e.g. how to promote awareness of the political and cultural dimensions of assisted development? how to contextualize claims to "participatory development"? -but pushes through conventional boundaries by asking broad social science questions of highly specific interventions. Practitioners and social scientists new to the debate are thus invited to develop critical awareness, for example, of the politics of nutrient transfers, of forest management ideologies, or of the notion that soils can be read as cultural artefacts. Such concepts capture novel ways of framing common problems in biophysical science.Aimed at ...

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Social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand

Archer¹

2010

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Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

Cited by 17 publications

References 98 publications

Fostering Collective Action in a Village-Tank Cascade-Based Community in Sri Lanka: An Illusion or Reality?

Fostering Collective Action in a Village-Tank Cascade-Based Community in Sri Lanka: An Illusion or Reality?

Beyond the Biophysical

Social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand

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