Essays about: "Communal Property"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words Communal Property.

  1. 6. From Communal to Private: Dynamics of a Changing Land Tenure System in Chepareria, West Pokot County, Kenya

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Laura Saxer; [2014-12-18]
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    Abstract : In the context of the ongoing land use change in pastoral areas in East Africa, new developments and dynamics imply various shifts in pastoralist livelihoods and land management. Previous research has engaged in a polarised debate of private versus communal tenure. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Implications of Local Governance for REDD+: A Case Study From the Ecuadorian Amazon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Anthony Collen; [2011]
    Keywords : REDD ; Governance; Communities; Institutions; Safeguards; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Recognising the critical role of forests in addressing Climate Change, a proposal being negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” mechanism, or REDD+. REDD+ aims to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by providing economic incentives to developing countries and local forest inhabitants to conserve, manage or enhance their forests. READ MORE

  4. 8. Conservation and Development: The Effect of Property Rights on Development; A Case Study on Communal Lands in Namibia

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Martin Johansson; [2009]
    Keywords : Conservancies; Differences-in-Differences; Property Rights; Namibia; Development;

    Abstract : The paper uses the Differences-in-Differences method to study the effects of a change in property rights on communal land in Namibia. The change enables the people living there to form conservancies and thereby acquire certain rights over wildlife and land. READ MORE

  5. 9. Wildlife management on communal land in Namibia : an economic approach

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Johanna Forslund; [2007]
    Keywords : wildlife management; common property resource management; collective property rights; economic incentives; human-wildlife conflicts HWC ;

    Abstract : In this paper the anti-poaching effects achieved under the actual implementation of the economically-based system for management and utilization of wildlife (Community Based Natural Resource Management, CBNRM) initiated in Namibia in 1995, is theoretically contrasted to the intended policy design. By contrasting a Nash equilibrium, where the park agency and the local community act like competitors rather than companions, to a collusive equilibrium, where the two actors work together as a united entity, more local anti-poaching activities is found in the latter case. READ MORE