Insiders, Outsiders, and the Role of Local Enforcement in Forest Management: An Example from Tanzania

Elizabeth Robinson (), Heidi Albers, Razack Lokina and Guyslain Ngeleza ()

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Abstract: Typically both local villagers (“insiders†) and non-locals (“outsiders†) extract products from protected forests even though the activities are illegal. Our paper suggests that, depending on the relative ecological damage caused by each group, budget-constrained forest managers may be able to reduce total forest degradation by legalizing “insider†extraction in return for local villagers involvement in enforcement activities. We illustrate this through the development of a game-theoretic model that considers explicitly the interaction between the forest manager who can combine a limited enforcement budget with legalization of insider resource extraction and livelihood projects

Keywords: participatory forest management; local enforcement; Tanzania; charcoal production; non-timber forest products; bee keeping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06-06
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