Title: Decentralization and deforestation : the moderating role of polycentric governance

Authors: Wright, Glenn D.

Place: [Paris

Publisher: International society for new institutional economics (ISNIE)]

Year: 2012

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: governance, forest management, local government, deforestation, decentralization in government, bolivia, peru

Abstract: Cases from Peru and Bolivia show that decentralization has an ambiguous effect on forest cover change. However, polycentric governance, which is equally common in decentralized and centralized regimes, has a stronger, positive effect on forest conservation in decentralized settings.

URL: https://extranet.sioe.org/uploads/isnie2012/andersson_evans_gibson_wright.pdf

Document type: E-article