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Institutions and environmental resource extraction within local communities in Mozambique
Forest Policy and Economics ( IF 4 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 , DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102724
Herbert Ntuli , Alfred Kechia Mukong , Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi

Scholars contend that governance structure, whether community-facilitated or state-facilitated natural resource management, shape environmental resource use. However, the complex manifestations of institutions and governance structure suggest the need for a continual application of mixed-method analytical approaches to understand the environmental resource use outcomes linked to individual effects and the interaction of both state- and community-based governance structure. This paper addresses the current lacunae, by quantitatively analyzing the effects of community-facilitated and state-facilitated natural resource management on the exploitation of environmental resources in rural Mozambique. The common pool resource literature holds that community-based institutions either countervail or complement state institutions. We examine this hypothesis by introducing an interaction term to test for the dominance of one type of institution over another. We use heteroscedasticity-based instrumental variables estimation and data collected from 238 households in seven villages of the Mangalane community, located in the Gaza province. These data were complemented by key informant interviews and focus group discussions. The results reveal the following: (i) both the community-facilitated natural resource management and the interaction term play a significant role in constraining participation in environmental resource extraction; (ii) community-facilitated natural resource management are among the important drivers of relative environmental income; and (iii) although community-facilitated natural resource management show a positive and highly significant influence in shaping environmental resource extraction, state-facilitated natural resource management dominance is prevalent in this context. This paper not only sheds light on the relative influence of both community-facilitated and state-facilitated natural resource management, it also provides useful insights for future studies on institutional change in resource management settings of Africa.



中文翻译:

莫桑比克当地社区的机构和环境资源开采

学者们认为,治理结构,无论是社区促进还是国家促进的自然资源管理,都会影响环境资源的使用。然而,制度和治理结构的复杂表现表明,需要持续应用混合方法分析方法来了解与个体效应相关的环境资源使用结果以及基于国家和社区的治理结构的相互作用。本文通过定量分析社区促进和国家促进的自然资源管理对莫桑比克农村环境资源开发的影响,解决了当前的缺陷。共同池资源文献认为,以社区为基础的机构要么抵消或补充国家机构。我们通过引入一个交互项来检验这一假设,以检验一种制度对另一种制度的主导地位。我们使用基于异方差的工具变量估计和从位于加沙省 Mangalane 社区的 7 个村庄的 238 户家庭收集的数据。这些数据得到了关键线人访谈和焦点小组讨论的补充。结果表明:(i)社区促进的自然资源管理和相互作用项在限制参与环境资源开采方面发挥着重要作用;(ii) 社区促进的自然资源管理是相对环境收入的重要驱动因素之一;(iii) 尽管社区促进的自然资源管理在塑造环境资源开采方面表现出积极和非常重要的影响,但在这种情况下,国家促进的自然资源管理占主导地位是普遍存在的。本文不仅阐明了社区促进和国家促进的自然资源管理的相对影响,还为未来研究非洲资源管理环境的制度变迁提供了有益的见解。

更新日期:2022-03-23
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