Games For Triggering Collective Change In Natural Resource Management A Conceptual Framework And Insights From Four Cases From India

Author : Falk, Thomas,Zhang, Wei,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Bartels, Lara
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India by Falk, Thomas,Zhang, Wei,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Bartels, Lara Pdf

As resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable management. Coordinated collective action can play a key role in enabling communities to manage natural resources more sustainably. But when such collective action is not present, what can be done to foster it? There is growing awareness that the governance of natural resources has to be adapted to the specific context. Interventions are often implemented at small scale, and the potential to scale up facilitation intensive approaches is limited. Moreover, sustainable resource management frequently fails to emerge or breaks down after the project ends. To date, researchers have typically used behavioral games to study cooperation patterns of communities. Recently, games have been adapted as learning and stakeholder engagement tools to improve management of the commons, strengthen self-regulation of resource use, and enhance constructive interactions among resource users. Combining games with other interventions and tools and facilitated discussions has been proposed as a promising approach to improve collective action institutions through experiential learning — a classic approach in education. This paper reviews existing literature and synthesizes lessons learned from a series of studies testing the use of behavioral games for institutional capacity development in India. We conclude that, while games alone will not be the solution to all natural resource management challenges games can provide a structured and therefore replicable approach for influencing behavior. They can also improve system understanding, raise awareness, influence norms, facilitate dialogue, train for crisis response, and increase legitimacy of decisions.

Author : Thomas Falk,Wei Zhang,Ruth Meinzen-Dick,Lara Bartels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1355860107

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Games for Triggering Collective Change in Natural Resource Management by Thomas Falk,Wei Zhang,Ruth Meinzen-Dick,Lara Bartels Pdf

Author : Zhang, Wei,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Valappanandi, Sanoop,Balakrishna, Raksha,Reddy, Hemalatha,Janssen, Marco A.,Thomas, Liya,Priyadarshini, Pratiti,Kandikuppa, Sandeep,Chaturvedi, Rahul,Ghate, Rucha
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Norms, gender, and payment method affect extraction behavior in a framed field experiment on community forestry in India by Zhang, Wei,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Valappanandi, Sanoop,Balakrishna, Raksha,Reddy, Hemalatha,Janssen, Marco A.,Thomas, Liya,Priyadarshini, Pratiti,Kandikuppa, Sandeep,Chaturvedi, Rahul,Ghate, Rucha Pdf

This paper presents results from a framed field experiment in which participants make decisions about extraction of a common-pool resource, a community forest. The experiment was designed and piloted as both a research activity and an experiential learning intervention during 2017-2018 with 120 groups of resource users (split by gender) from 60 habitations in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. We examine whether local beliefs and norms about community forest, gender of participants, within-experiment treatments (non-communication, communication, and optional election of institutional arrangements (rules)) and remuneration methods affect harvest behaviour and groups’ tendency to cooperate. Furthermore, we explore whether the experiment and subsequent community debriefing had learning effects. Results reveal a “weak” Nash Equilibrium in which participants harvested substantially less than the Nash prediction even in the absence of communication, a phenomenon stronger for male than female participants in both states. For male groups in both states, both communication and optional rule election are associated with lower group harvest per round, as compared to the reference non-communication game. For female groups in both states, however, communication itself did not significantly slow down resource depletion; but the introduction of optional rule election did reduce harvest amounts. For both men and women in Andhra Pradesh and men in Rajasthan, incentivized payments to individual participants significantly lowered group harvest, relative to community flat payment, suggesting a possible “crowding-in” effect on pro-social norms. Despite the generally positive memory of the activity, reported actual changes are limited. This may be due to the lack of follow-up with the communities between the experiment and the revisit. The fact that many of the communities already have a good understanding of the importance of the relationships between (not) cutting trees and the ecosystem services from forests, with rules and strong internal norms against cutting that go beyond the felling of trees in the game, may have also meant that the game did not have as much to add. Findings have methodological and practical implications for designing behavioral intervention programs to improve common-pool resource governance.

Author : Andersson, Krister,Emmelhainz, Roger
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Review of the contributions of PIM-funded research on resource tenure and governance to policy and program decision making by Andersson, Krister,Emmelhainz, Roger Pdf

The purpose of this review is to assess the extent to which the research outputs of Flagship 5 of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM5) have been used to inform decisions and behaviors of representatives of government organizations, development agencies, researchers, donors, private firms, nongovernment organizations, and other users. The review addresses seven questions: 1. Who uses the outputs of PIM5, including general publications, journal articles, briefs, and other products? 2. Who uses the tools and games created and disseminated by the Flagship researchers? 3. Who attends the outreach events and capacity-building workshops organized by researchers involved in the Flagship? 4. How are the research outputs being used? What policies, programs, and strategies have been informed, and how? 5. For selected cases, what is the research-to-uptake process and how we can learn from it? 6. What are the key cases and impact pathways identified, and what can we learn from them? What are the promising pathways that we should explore further in the final 18 months of the program? 7. What are the gaps and missed opportunities for impact that we should explore in the final months of the program, or that should be considered in the One CGIAR? To address these questions, the review relied on bibliographic references; document download data; personal interviews; focus group discussions; and three different online surveys targeting researchers and their partners, as well as different types of end users. We used both quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze these data. In this summary, we selectively discuss the review’s most important findings and recommendations.

Author : van Koppen, Barbara
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290909446

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Living customary water tenure in rights-based water management in Sub-Saharan Africa by van Koppen, Barbara Pdf

Author : Alessandro Bucciol,Alessandro Tavoni,Marcella Veronesi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000827033

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Behavioural Economics and the Environment by Alessandro Bucciol,Alessandro Tavoni,Marcella Veronesi Pdf

Humans have long neglected to fully consider the impact of their behaviour on the environment. From excessive consumption of fossil fuels and natural resources to pollution, waste disposal, and, in more recent years, climate change, most people and institutions lack a clear understanding of the environmental consequences of their actions. The new field of behavioural environmental economics seeks to address this by applying the framework of behavioural economics to environmental issues, thereby rationalizing unexplained puzzles and providing a more realistic account of individual behaviour. This book provides a complete and rigorous overview of environmental topics that may be addressed and, in many instances, better understood by integrating a behavioural approach. This volume features state-of-the-art research on this topic by influential scholars in behavioural and environmental economics, focussing on the effects of psychological, social and cognitive factors on the decision-making process. It presents research performed using different methods and data collection mechanisms (e.g. laboratory experiments, field experiments, natural experiments, online surveys) on a variety of environmental topics (e.g. sustainability, natural resources). This book is a comprehensive and innovative tool for researchers and students interested in the behavioural economics of the environment and in the design of policy interventions aimed at reducing the human impact on the environment.

Author : CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Annual report 2021: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Pdf

PIM had a productive final year centered on synthesizing findings while continuing to respond to demand on the impacts of COVID-19 and preparing the transition to the new CGIAR portfolio. PIM findings and engagement contributed to Myanmar’s response to COVID-19, South Africa’s policies on resilience to climate change, Tunisia's policies for pastoral development, a reform of Nigeria’s national agricultural research system, Ghana’s fish seed and farm certification system, gender strategies for three agricultural value chains in Honduras, and genome editing guidelines for the agricultural sector in four African countries. PIM research informed policy documents of FAO, IFAD, One CGIAR, the UK Government, the World Bank and the World Food Programme. PIM tools enabled more equitable co-management of 76 protected areas in Peru and informed World Bank social protection projects. Books on food security in Bangladesh and Malawi, trade in Latin America, African agricultural value chains and gender were published. 42 PIM synthesis briefs and notes were issued, summarizing research results in key thematic areas. PIM contributed 181 journal articles, 8 journal issues (on demand driven seed systems, China’s response to COVID-19, agriculture and food security in China under COVID-19, food loss and waste, landscape restoration, multistakeholder fora in forestry and two issues on gender), 15 book chapters and about 500 non-peer-reviewed outputs. 16 PIM webinars were organized. PIM’s contributions to the United Nations Food Systems Summit covered agricultural extension, food system innovations and digital technologies, the future of small farms, the science-policy interface, the cost of ending hunger by 2030, food waste and loss, management of the commons and gender. Building on past PIM investments in economywide modeling tools and social accounting matrices, PIM teams continued to assess the impacts of COVID-19 and policy responses at country level. Lessons learned from PIM country-level analyses on COVID-19’s impacts on food systems, poverty and diets are summarized in a chapter of the IFPRI 2022 book “COVID19 and global food security: Two years later”. A paper in partnership with the CGIAR COVID19 Hub reviewed the literature on agri-food value chains for evidence of fractures and resilience in response to the pandemic. The results of coordinated studies on the impacts of COVID-19 on value chains in different countries were published. Several cross-CGIAR outputs initiated by PIM speak to the fulfillment of PIM’s convening role as an integrating program: the CGIAR Foresight Report and CGIAR foresight website; several outputs produced through the CGIAR Community of Excellence on Seed Systems Development, and the CGIAR book “Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future” are examples. Other examples of PIM global public goods produced in 2021 are 27 innovations at various stages of uptake, a cross-cutting effort to distill PIM lessons on migration; new or updated social accounting matrices for 25 countries; and lessons and tools on stakeholder platforms for natural resource governance. Independent reviews assessed the effectiveness of PIM’s partnerships and the use by partners of PIM’s work on economywide modelling, agricultural insurance, tenure and governance, and the Ag-Incentives database.

Author : Glenn R. Guntenspergen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781489980410

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Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making by Glenn R. Guntenspergen Pdf

Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change. These abrupt changes are poorly accommodated by traditional natural resource planning and decision-making processes. As recognition of threshold processes has increased, contemporary models of ecological systems have been modified to better represent a broader range of ecological system dynamics. Key conceptual advances associated with the ideas of non-linear responses, the existence of multiple ecological stable states and critical thresholds are more likely the rule than the exception in ecological systems. Once an ecological threshold is crossed, the ecosystem in question is not likely to return to its previous state. There are many examples and a general consensus that climatic disruptions will drive now stable systems across ecological thresholds. This book provides professional resource managers with a broad general decision framework that illustrates the utility of including ecological threshold concepts in natural resource management. It gives an entry into the literature in this rapidly evolving concept, with descriptions and discussion of the promising statistical approaches for threshold detection and demonstrations of the utility of the threshold framework via a series of case studies.

Author : Ariel Dinar,José Albiac,Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415779936

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Game Theory and Policymaking in Natural Resources and the Environment by Ariel Dinar,José Albiac,Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano Pdf

Game Theory has become one of the main analytical tools for addressing strategic issues in the field of economics and is increasing its influence in other fields of social sciences. With the increased level of extraction of natural resources and pollution of environments, game theory gains its place in the literature and it is more and more seen as a tool for policy makers and not only for theoreticians. The book is structured into four parts dealing with the management of natural resources, the negotiation aspects of water management, water allocation through pricing and markets, and how conflicts and regulation shape the management of the environment. The first part explores game theory concepts applied to fisheries and grazing lands, which are two important natural resources. In the next two parts, several game theory methodologies are considered in the negotiation approach to water management and approaches to water pricing and markets. The last section looks at environmental protection as the end process of the interplay between conflict and regulation. This book includes chapters by experts from developing and developed countries that apply game theory to actual issues in natural resources and the environment. As such the book is extremely useful for graduate students and technical experts interested in the sustainable management of natural resource and the environment. It is also relevant to all Game Theory and Environmental Economics students.

Author : Hemant R. Ojha,Ram B. Chhetri
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552503713

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Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources by Hemant R. Ojha,Ram B. Chhetri Pdf

In recent years, knowledge systems have become key areas of concern for researchers, policy-makers and developmental activists. Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources is a unique collection of case studies from Nepal. It provides rich and incisive insights into critical social processes and deliberative governance. It analyses how knowledge is produced, disseminated and applied in various aspects of natural resource governance in Nepal. The book challenges the dichotomy between traditional and scientific knowledge. It proposes to differentiate among systems of knowledge on the basis of political standing of social actors engaged in natural resource governance. It further proposes that change in governance hinges on how the diverse systems of knowledge come into deliberative interface and to what extent the unequal distribution of power and knowledge resources in society constrain the process of deliberation.

Author : Diana Carney,John Farrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8187943025

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Natural Resource Management And Institutional Change by Diana Carney,John Farrington Pdf

Author : Stephen M. Redpath,R. J. Gutiérrez,Kevin A. Wood,Juliette C. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107017696

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Conflicts in Conservation by Stephen M. Redpath,R. J. Gutiérrez,Kevin A. Wood,Juliette C. Young Pdf

An insightful guide to understanding conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity and groundbreaking strategies to deal with them.

Author : Robin Connor,Stephen Dovers
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843765691

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Institutional Change for Sustainable Development by Robin Connor,Stephen Dovers Pdf

From these explorations, key principles for institutional change are identified, including the institutional accommodation of a sustainability discourse, the interdependence of normative and institutional change; reiteration and learning; integration in policy and practice; subsidiarity; and legal change." "Institutional Change for Sustainable Development will be of interest to researchers, policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability, resource management and environmental policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tetsukazu Yahara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811586323

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Decision Science for Future Earth by Tetsukazu Yahara Pdf

This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented transdisciplinary studies on the environment, disasters, health, governance and human cooperation. Based on these case studies and comprehensive reviews of relevant works, including lessons learned from past failures for predictable surprises and successes in adaptive co-management, the book provides the reader with new perspectives on how we can co-design collaborative projects with various conflicts of interest and how we can transform our society for a sustainable future. The book makes a valuable contribution to the global research initiative Future Earth, promoting transdisciplinary studies to bridge the gap between science and society in knowledge generation processes and supporting efforts to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Compared to other publications on transdisciplinary studies, this book is unique in that evolutionary biology is used as an integrator for various areas related to human decision-making, and approaches social changes as processes of adaptive learning and evolution. Given its scope, the book is highly recommended to all readers seeking an integrated overview of human decision-making in the context of social transformation.

Author : Cynthia McDougall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1137346704

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Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods by Cynthia McDougall Pdf

Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods analyses and extends this premise to show unequivocally that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches, leading to development based on the needs and knowledge of local resource users. Drawing on extensive and highly relevant case studies, this book presents innovative approaches for establishing and sustaining participation and collective decision-making, good practice for research, and challenges for future developments. It covers a wide range of natural resources - including forests and soils, and water and management units, such as watersheds and common property areas - and provides practical lessons from analysis and meta-analysis of cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It offers insights on how to make research participatory while maintaining rigour and high-quality biological science, different forms of participation, and ways to scale up and extend participatory approaches and successful initiatives. This book will be invaluable for those professionally involved in natural resource management for sustainable development and an essential resource for teachers and students of both the biophysical and social science aspects of natural resource management.