气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Citizen monitoring promotes informed and inclusive forest governance in Liberia

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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2015169118
	Citizen monitoring promotes informed and inclusive forest governance in Liberia
	Christensen D.; Hartman A.C.; Samii C.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:29
英文摘要	Global forest loss depends on decisions made in the rural, often poor communities living beside the Earth’s remaining forests. Governance problems in these forest-edge communities contribute to rapid deforestation and household vulnerability. In coordination with experimental studies in 5 other countries, we evaluate a program that recruits, trains, and deploys citizens to monitor communal forestland in 60 communities in rural Liberia. The yearlong intervention is designed to promote more informed and inclusive resource governance, so that that citizens’ preferences (and not just leaders’ interests) are reflected in forest management. In our control communities, households are uninformed and disengaged; leaders’ authority is unchecked. The program both engages and mobilizes community members: households are better informed and participate more in the design and enforcement of rules around forest use. They also report receiving more material benefits from outside investors’ activities in their community forests. The chiefs who lead these communities attest to strengthened accountability. Using both on-the-ground environmental assessments and remotely sensed data, we find no effects on forest use or deforestation. Households do not favor more conservation, and, thus, more inclusive management does not reduce forest use. Conservation likely requires compensating community members for foregoing forest use; citizen monitoring, we argue, could ensure that such schemes enjoy popular support and do not just benefit local elites. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Citizen monitoring; Forest conservation; Resource governance; Social accountability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	deforestation; experimental study; forest management; household; leadership; Liberia; review; social responsibility; article
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238478
作者单位	Department of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States; Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States; Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, University College London, London, WC1H 9QU, United Kingdom; Department of Politics, New York University, New York, NY 10012, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Christensen D.,Hartman A.C.,Samii C.. Citizen monitoring promotes informed and inclusive forest governance in Liberia[J],2021,118(29).
APA	Christensen D.,Hartman A.C.,&Samii C..(2021).Citizen monitoring promotes informed and inclusive forest governance in Liberia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(29).
MLA	Christensen D.,et al."Citizen monitoring promotes informed and inclusive forest governance in Liberia".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.29(2021).