Determinants and impact of local institutions for common resource management

摘要

In this article, local institutions for forest conservation and management are analysed. The discussion is based on data from 37 villages and 180 households randomly sampled from a protected area in Rajsthan, India. Local management institutions are described, factors affecting inter-village differences in management institutions and col- lective action are analysed in a logit model, and the impact of institutions and other variables on common resource dependency and forest outcomes is tested using instru- mental variable regression.