What makes them follow the rules? Empirical evidence from turtle egg harvesters in Costa Rica

Madrigal-Ballestero, Róger; Schlüter, Achim; López, María Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.05.009

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“…This might have further encouraged young local fishermen to fish inside the managed area because in the face of such a race for fish locals may have wondered why they should obey the marine closure if others were reaping the benefits. Other studies have similarly revealed that young age, which often goes along with less participation in the process of developing the rules, can lower support for and compliance with such rules (e.g., Schlüter and Madrigal, 2012;Madrigal-Ballestero et al, 2013). This highlights the importance of participation with equal access for and representation of all groups affected to generate legitimacy and increase rule acceptance (Jentoft, 2000;Van Tatenhove, 2013).…”

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Multiple Drivers of Local (Non-) Compliance in Community-Based Marine Resource Management: Case Studies from the South Pacific

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The outcomes of marine conservation and related management interventions depend to a large extent on people's compliance with these rule systems. In the South Pacific, community-based marine resource management (CBMRM) has gained wide recognition as a strategy for the sustainable management of marine resources. In current practice, CBMRM initiatives often build upon customary forms of marine governance, integrating scientific advice and management principles in collaboration with external partners. However, diverse socio-economic developments as well as limited legal mandates can challenge these approaches. Compliance with and effective (legally-backed) enforcement of local management strategies constitute a growing challenge for communities-often resulting in considerable impact on the success or failure of CBMRM. Marine management arrangements are highly dynamic over time, and similarly compliance with rule systems tends to change depending on context. Understanding the factors contributing to (non-) compliance in a given setting is key to the design and function of adaptive management approaches. Yet, few empirical studies have looked in depth into the dynamics around local (non-) compliance with local marine tenure rules under the transforming management arrangements. Using two case studies from Solomon Islands and Fiji, we investigate what drives local (non-) compliance with CBMRM and what hinders or supports its effective enforcement. The case studies reveal that non-compliance is mainly driven by: (1) diminishing perceived legitimacy of local rules and rule-makers; (2) increased incentives to break rules due to market access and/ or lack of alternative income; and (3) relatively weak enforcement of local rules (i.e., low perceptions of risk from sanctions for rule-breaking). These drivers do not stand alone but can act together and add up to impair effective management. We further analyze how enforcement of CBMRM is challenged through a range of institutional; socio-cultural and technical/financial constraints, which are in parts a result Rohe et al. Multiple Drivers of Local (Non-) Compliance of the dynamism and ongoing transformations of management arrangements. Our study underlines the importance of better understanding and contextualizing marine resource management processes under dynamic conditions for an improved understanding of compliance in a particular setting.

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Multiple Drivers of Local (Non-) Compliance in Community-Based Marine Resource Management: Case Studies from the South Pacific

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“…This dimension draws heavily from the literature on social psychology to suggest that governing institutions that allow for meaningful stakeholder participation satisfy innate needs for self-determination and provide intrinsic motivation to cooperate with rules [41 ]. In fact, local rulemaking is often associated with higher levels of rule compliance [42][43][44] and sustainable patterns of use [45,46].…”

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Institutional fit and the sustainability of social–ecological systems

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“…Agarwal (2009b) describes this emphasis in the importance of forest protection as a conservationist idea that comes with age. Madrigal-Ballestero et al (2012) found in a turtle egg harvesting community in Costa Rica that different factors, including individual dependence on the income from the sale of eggs, perceptions and legitimacy of rules and demographic factors such as age and gender are determinant factors to explain rule-breaking behavior. In particular, the authors found that age positively affects compliance with rules because elders invested time and effort to get government approval to harvest eggs and to design the set of rules currently in use.…”

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Rules Compliance and Age: Experimental Evidence with Fishers from the Amazon River

Vélez¹,

López²

2013

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ABSTRACT. We report the results of common-pool resource economic experiments conducted with indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. The experiments recreate two contexts: a limited open access with no institutions regulating the fisheries and a nonmonetary external regulation that limits individual extraction when a fisher is found to be overextracting. We find that variables that did not explain behavior under limited open access do so under the regulatory institution. In particular, when the nonmonetary external regulation was introduced, we found a nonlinear significant effect of age on individual harvest. This result implies a negative relationship between age and individual extraction that reaches a peak around age 54. Our results suggest that in our sample, age groups react differently to an institution aimed to manage the fishery and open a discussion regarding the role of older fishers when a new regulation is introduced to manage natural resources. Their role could go beyond the dissemination of traditional knowledge and cultural systems since older fishers could be key actors in disseminating and adapting new institutions.

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What makes them follow the rules? Empirical evidence from turtle egg harvesters in Costa Rica

Cited by 37 publications

References 34 publications

Multiple Drivers of Local (Non-) Compliance in Community-Based Marine Resource Management: Case Studies from the South Pacific

Multiple Drivers of Local (Non-) Compliance in Community-Based Marine Resource Management: Case Studies from the South Pacific

Institutional fit and the sustainability of social–ecological systems

Rules Compliance and Age: Experimental Evidence with Fishers from the Amazon River

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