Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability / Jean-Marie Baland, Samuel Bowles, Pranab Bardhan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baland, Jean-Marie, editor.

Bardhan, Pranab K., editor.

Bowles, Samuel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commons--Case studies.

Commons.

Natural resources, Communal--Case studies.

Natural resources, Communal.

Sustainable development--Case studies.

Sustainable development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability. The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental degradation--for example, if the poor value the preservation of the environment less than the rich do, or if the consumption patterns of the poor entail proportionally greater environmental degradation than that of the rich. The contributors also find that the effect of inequality on cooperation and environmental sustainability depends critically on the economic and political institutions governing how people interact, and the technical nature of the environmental asset in question. The contributors focus on the local commons because many of the world's poorest depend on them for their livelihoods, and recent research has made great strides in showing how private incentives, group governance, and government policies might combine to protect these resources.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1. Introduction / Baland, Jean-Marie / Bardhan, Pranab / Bowles, Samuel

CHAPTER 2. Collective Action on the Commons: The Role of Inequality / Baland, Jean-Marie / Platteau, Jean-Philippe

CHAPTER 3. Inequality and Collective Action / Bardhan, Pranab / Ghatak, Maitreesh / Karaivanov, Alexander

CHAPTER 4. Adoption of a New Regulation for the Governance of Common-Pool Resources by a Heterogeneous Population / Janssen, Marco A. / Ostrom, Elinor

CHAPTER 5. Inequality and the Governance of Water Resources in Mexico and South India / Bardhan, Pranab / Dayton-Johnson, Jeff

CHAPTER 6. Managing Pacific Salmon: The Role of Distributional Conflicts in Coastal Salish Fisheries / Singleton, Sara

CHAPTER 7. Heterogeneity and Collective Action for Effort Regulation: Lessons from Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries / Gaspart, Frederic / Platteau, Jean-Philippe

CHAPTER 8. Wealth Inequality and Overexploitation of the Commons: Field Experiments in Colombia / Cardenas, Juan-Camilo

CHAPTER 9. Collective Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter? / Somanatban, Eswaran / Prabhakar, Rajagopal / Mehta, Bhupendra Singh

CHAPTER 10. Inequality, Collective Action, and the Environment: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Nepal / Baland, Jean-Marie / Bardhan, Pranab / Das, Sanghamitra / Mookherjee, Dilip / Sarkar, Rinki

CHAPTER 11. Gender Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability / Agarwal, Bina

CHAPTER 12. Inequality and Environmental Protection / Boyce, James K.

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691187389

069118738X

OCLC:

1132226718