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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2015172118
	Can community monitoring save the commons? Evidence on forest use and displacement
	Eisenbarth S.; Graham L.; Rigterink A.S.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:29
英文摘要	Rapid deforestation is a major driver of greenhouse-gas emissions (1). One proposed policy tool to halt deforestation is community forest management. Even though communities manage an increasing proportion of the world’s forests, we lack good evidence of successful approaches to community forest management. Prior studies suggest that successful approaches require a number of “design conditions” to be met. However, causal evidence on the effectiveness of individual design conditions is scarce. This study isolates one design condition, community-led monitoring of the forest, and provides causal evidence on its potential to reduce forest use. The study employs a randomized controlled trial to investigate the impact of community monitoring on forest use in 110 villages in Uganda. We explore the impact of community monitoring in both monitored and unmonitored areas of the forest, using exceptionally detailed data from on-the-ground measurements and satellite imagery. Estimates indicate that community monitoring does not affect our main outcome of interest, a forest-use index. However, treatment villages see a relative increase in forest loss outside of monitored forest areas compared to control villages. This increase is seen both in nonmonitored areas adjacent to treatment villages and in nonmonitored areas adjacent to neighboring villages not included in the study. We tentatively conclude that at least part of the increase in forest loss in nonmonitored areas is due to displacement of forest use by members of treatment villages due to fear of sanctions. Interventions to reduce deforestation should take this potentially substantial effect into consideration. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Common pool resources; Community forest management; Community monitoring; Deforestation; Forest conservation
语种	英语
scopus关键词	controlled study; deforestation; fear; forest management; human; human experiment; randomized controlled trial; review; satellite imagery; Uganda; 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/238480
作者单位	University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4PU, United Kingdom; Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4PU, United Kingdom; Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya; School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3TU, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eisenbarth S.,Graham L.,Rigterink A.S.. Can community monitoring save the commons? Evidence on forest use and displacement[J],2021,118(29).
APA	Eisenbarth S.,Graham L.,&Rigterink A.S..(2021).Can community monitoring save the commons? Evidence on forest use and displacement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(29).
MLA	Eisenbarth S.,et al."Can community monitoring save the commons? Evidence on forest use and displacement".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.29(2021).