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Insiders, Outsiders, and the Role of Local Enforcement in Forest Management: An Example from Tanzania

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  • Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z.
  • Albers, Heidi J.
  • Lokina, Razack
  • Ngeleza, Guyslain

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Typically both local villagers (“insiders†) and non-locals (“outsiders†) extract products from protected forests even though the activities are illegal. Our paper suggests that, depending on the relative ecological damage caused by each group, budget-constrained forest managers may be able to reduce total forest degradation by legalizing “insider†extraction in return for local villagers involvement in enforcement activities. We illustrate this through the development of a game-theoretic model that considers explicitly the interaction between the forest manager who can combine a limited enforcement budget with legalization of insider resource extraction and livelihood projects

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  • Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z. & Albers, Heidi J. & Lokina, Razack & Ngeleza, Guyslain, 2012. "Insiders, Outsiders, and the Role of Local Enforcement in Forest Management: An Example from Tanzania," RFF Working Paper Series dp-12-07-efd, Resources for the Future.
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