Belling the cat: Designing collective action institutions for natural resource management in the peri-urban interface

Vishal Narain and Pranay Ranjan
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Vishal Narain: Management Development Institute Gurgaon, India
Pranay Ranjan: Northern Arizona University, USA

Urban Studies, 2024, vol. 61, issue 8, 1604-1614

Abstract: Peri-urban spaces are experiencing tremendous growth in the Global South, which in turn has fuelled a suite of environmental and natural resource management challenges, including inequitable access to and conflicts over natural resources, and the existence of institutional lacunae. Against this backdrop, we examine how scholars study collective action institutions around natural resource management in peri-urban spaces, with a regional focus on South Asia, and present its implications for institutional design and development in peri-urban contexts. In order to do so, we use ‘organic institutions’ and ‘pragmatic institutions’– a type of institutional classification grounded in the origin of institutions, as a conceptual entry point. We find that less is known about the role of organic institutions in enabling collective action around natural resource management in peri-urban spaces, even though their understanding is key for efforts at building effective pragmatic institutions. The paper concludes that practitioners working in peri-urban spaces should invest resources into understanding underlying social differences and developing strategies to mobilise social groups, by developing an understanding of organic institutions in peri-urban spaces.

Keywords: Adaptation; civic engagement; cooperation; governance; organic institutions; pragmatic institutions; 适应; å…¬æ°‘å ‚ä¸Ž; å ˆä½œ; æ²»ç †; 有机制度; 实用制度 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980231211681

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