Can co-management improve the governance of a common-pool resource? Lessons from a framed field experiment in a marine protected area in the Colombian Caribbean

Complexities associated with the management of common pool resources (CPR) threaten governance at some marine protected areas (MPA). In this paper, using economic experimental games (EEG), we investigate the effects of both external regulation and the complementarities between internal regulation an...

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Autores:
Moreno Sánchez, Rocío del Pilar
Maldonado, Jorge Higinio
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2009
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8119
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8119
Palabra clave:
Common-pool resources
Governance
Co-management
Experimental economic games
Fisheries
Latin America
Economía experimental - América Latina
Gestión ambiental - América Latina
Teoría de los juegos
C93, C72, D02, D70, Q01, Q22, Q28, C23, C25
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:Complexities associated with the management of common pool resources (CPR) threaten governance at some marine protected areas (MPA). In this paper, using economic experimental games (EEG), we investigate the effects of both external regulation and the complementarities between internal regulation and non-coercive authority intervention-what we call co-management-on fishermen's extraction decisions. We perform EEG with fishermen inhabiting the influence zone of an MPA in the Colombian Caribbean. The results show that co-management exhibits the best results, both in terms of resource sustainability and reduction in extraction, highlighting the importance of strategies that recognize communities as key actors in the decision-making process for the sustainable use and conservation of CPR in protected areas.