TY - JOUR
T1 - Drivers of compliance monitoring in forest commons
AU - Epstein, Graham
AU - Gurney, Georgina
AU - Chawla, Sivee
AU - Anderies, John M.
AU - Baggio, Jacopo
AU - Unnikrishnan, Hita
AU - Villamayor Tomas, Sergio
AU - Cumming, Graeme S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) through funding received from the National Science Foundation (DBI-1639145).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - Lasting community-based governance of common-pool resources depends on communities self-organizing to monitor compliance with rules. Monitoring serves an important function in community-based governance by establishing conditions for long-term cooperation, but the factors that foster its provision are poorly understood. We have analysed data from 177 forest user groups to assess the relative importance of 15 potential drivers of compliance monitoring, as well as the direction and form of their relationships. The results suggest that user groups are most likely to successfully self-organize to monitor compliance when rules are designed by local user groups (local rulemaking), and when those user groups are located close to or far from markets for forest products and have a larger number of members. Additionally, local leadership plays an important role in certain contexts, such as groups that are smaller in size and located near markets for forest products.
AB - Lasting community-based governance of common-pool resources depends on communities self-organizing to monitor compliance with rules. Monitoring serves an important function in community-based governance by establishing conditions for long-term cooperation, but the factors that foster its provision are poorly understood. We have analysed data from 177 forest user groups to assess the relative importance of 15 potential drivers of compliance monitoring, as well as the direction and form of their relationships. The results suggest that user groups are most likely to successfully self-organize to monitor compliance when rules are designed by local user groups (local rulemaking), and when those user groups are located close to or far from markets for forest products and have a larger number of members. Additionally, local leadership plays an important role in certain contexts, such as groups that are smaller in size and located near markets for forest products.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41893-020-00673-4
DO - 10.1038/s41893-020-00673-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098790903
SN - 2398-9629
VL - 4
SP - 450
EP - 456
JO - Nature Sustainability
JF - Nature Sustainability
IS - 5
ER -
