A Social Choice Approach to Primary Resource Management: The rubber tree Case in Africa

Moussa Diaby, Hélène Ferrer and Fabrice Valognes
Additional contact information
Moussa Diaby: University of Caen Basse-Normandie - CREM UMR CNRS 6211, France

Economics Working Paper Archive (University of Rennes & University of Caen) from Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes, University of Caen and CNRS

Abstract: We consider in the present paper an original approach to a decision making problem related to the management of a primary resource, namely the rubber tree. By using the social choice theory through the approval voting, we show that it is possible to improve the return of the crop. Hence, by selecting the best varieties to be plant with respect to some environmental constraints, we demonstrate that approval voting can be easily used (opposed to classical operation research methods) by the african rubber tree planters in order to get a plantation at peak performance.

Keywords: Natural Resource Management; Rubber Tree; Social Choice; Group Decision Making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-cdm, nep-env and nep-res
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ged.univ-rennes1.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversion ... 72-af9f-6c568567f972 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: A social choice approach to primary resource management: The rubber tree case in Africa (2013)
Working Paper: A social choice approach to primary resource management: The rubber tree case in Africa (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tut:cremwp:201305

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
CREM (UMR CNRS 6211) - Faculty of Economics, 7 place Hoche, 35065 Rennes Cedex - France

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics Working Paper Archive (University of Rennes & University of Caen) from Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes, University of Caen and CNRS CREM (UMR CNRS 6211) – Faculty of Economics, 7 place Hoche, 35065 RENNES Cedex. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by GERMAIN Lucie ().