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Developing Effective Environmental Laws and Policies
Testing the Resiliency of Community Based Forest Management to Civil Conflict
Many writers and practitioners have argued that community managed natural resources are resilient to conflict. In other words, in countries where CBNRM is practiced, resources are less likely to be dissipated or otherwise unsustainably exploited during conflict. Local ownership, control and benefit sharing are thought to provide incentives for communities to cooperate to protect and develop their natural resources for the benefit of present and future members of their societies. While this argument has often been made, it has not been empirically verified by field studies. The proposed ELI project will attempt to fill this void. ELI will conduct a comparative case study to test the hypothesis that forests that are communally managed tend to be more resilient to conflict.
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