Robinson, Elizabeth J Z, Heidi J. Albers, Guyslain Ngeleza and Razack Lokina. 2014. “Insiders, outsiders, and the role of local enforcement in forest management: An example from Tanzania.” Ecological Economics 107: 242-248.
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In low-income countries, both nearby local villagers, “insiders”, and non-locals, “outsiders”, extract products from protected forests even though their actions are illegal.
Forest managers typically combine enforcement and livelihood projects offered to nearby communities to reduce this illegal activity, but with limited budgets cannot deter all extraction. We develop a game theoretic model of a forest manager's decision interacting with the extraction decisions of insiders and outsiders. Our analysis suggests that, depending on the relative ecological damage caused by each group, budget-constrained forest managers may reduce total forest degradation by legalizing “insider” extraction in return for local villagers' involvement in enforcement activities against outsiders.
Related EfD Discussion paper: EfD DP 12-07.
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Robinson, Elizabeth J Z
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Albers, Heidi J.
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Lokina, Razack
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Ngeleza, Guyslain