Martin, Paul

Le Gal, Elodie

Low Choy, Darryl

2016

Voluntary collective action is essential to natural resource governance. In peri-urban settings, a complex behavioural and institutional matrix frames such action, and the net balance of incentives and disincentives, supports and impediments determines the likelihood of effective action on any issue. Coupled with this, each issue has its own biophysical and social characteristic, which intersects with the character of the community. Taken together these issues suggest the need for a realistic understanding of what will make collective action feasible, and design of institutional arrangements to manage the totality of the behavioural setting and the reality of the problem being addressed. Taking invasive species (and in particular invasive animals) as an example, this chapter explores the dynamic nature of the challenge of collective action in a peri-urban setting.

Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities, p. 465-480

9783319281124

9783319281100

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19842

en

Springer

Water Science and Technology Library

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Effect of Social and Institutional Fragmentation on Collective Action in Peri-Urban Settings

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