BEHAVIOURS OF CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS. Analysis based on New (and not so new) Institutional Economics

Clement Tisdell

No 6185, Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Discussion Papers from Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: This article draws mostly (but not entirely) on new institutional economics to consider the likely behaviours of non-government conservation organizations and the implications of these behaviours for biodiversity conservation. It considers how institutional factors may result in behaviour of conservation NGOs diverging from their objectives, including their support for biodiversity conservation; examines aspects of rent capture and conservation alliances; specifies social factors that may restrict the diversity of species supported by NGOs for conservation; considers bounded rationality in relation to the operation of conservation NGOs; and using game theory, shows how competition between NGOs for funding can result in economic inefficiencies and narrow the diversity of species supported for conservation. It also considers generally how the social role of conservation NGOs might be assessed.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2008
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-cbe and nep-env
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6185/files/dp070019.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
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:ags:huiain:6185

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6185

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Discussion Papers from Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().