A comparative institutional analysis of two community forests managed under different governance structures in the dry zone area of Myanmar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21720150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Su Mon San (0000-0002-5720-0797), Yahia Omar Adam (0000-0002-8838-4023), Jürgen Pretzsch |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-104 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Forestry Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-5489 • E-ISSN: 2053-7778 |
| Publisher | Commonwealth Forestry Association (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1505/146554821832140367 |
| OpenAlex | W3144046650 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
The study focuses on the importance of institutional factors for the different governance structures of community forestry in Myanmar. The village forest management (VFM) model and sub-village forest management (SVFM) model were characterised using the Institutional Analysis and Development framework of Ostrom (2011) and analysed for how the governance structures influenced the action situation (actors and actions related to management) and the outcomes. The VFM model, despite its bigger group size and smaller forest area, performed better than the SVFM model due to its well-established local institutional arrangements. The inclusion of all villagers in collective actions and equitable benefit sharing in the VFM model reduced conflicts and improved outcomes. In contrast, individual utilisation of community forest patches by only small number of user group members in the SVFM model, in combination with unclear social and physical boundary rules, reduced its sustainability. Further research relating to the governance models as well as other factors is recommended
Business · Collective action · Community forestry · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Forest management · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Sustainability · Cambodian History and Society · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Ecology · Finance · Forestry
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A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems
A dynamic approach to forest regimes in developing economies
Change in forest governance in developing countries – in search of sustainable governance arrangements
Decision-Making Arrangements in Community-Based Watershed Management in Northern Thailand
What Makes Community Forest Management Successful
Environmental Entitlements
Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources
The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action
An Introduction to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop
Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
Group Size and Collective Action
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |