Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia
Common property resources1 are important sources of timber, fuelwood, and grazing land in developing countries. When community members have unrestricted access to the resource, or when use regulations are ineffective, these resources are exploited on a first-come, first-served basis. Each individual...
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| author | Gebremedhin, Berhanu Pender, John L. Tesfay, Girmay |
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| description | Common property resources1 are important sources of timber, fuelwood, and grazing land in developing countries. When community members have unrestricted access to the resource, or when use regulations are ineffective, these resources are exploited on a first-come, first-served basis. Each individual user of the resource will tend to continue to use the resource until her average revenue is equal to the marginal cost of using the resource (Gordon 1954). In the presence of externalities, social marginal cost exceeds private marginal cost, and common property resources can still be degraded if an individual equates her marginal cost with her marginal benefit of utilizing the resource. These conditions lead to overexploitation of the resource and the dissipation of the scarcity rent. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1605632025-11-06T03:59:34Z Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia Gebremedhin, Berhanu Pender, John L. Tesfay, Girmay land use land policies agriculture land management highlands sustainability Common property resources1 are important sources of timber, fuelwood, and grazing land in developing countries. When community members have unrestricted access to the resource, or when use regulations are ineffective, these resources are exploited on a first-come, first-served basis. Each individual user of the resource will tend to continue to use the resource until her average revenue is equal to the marginal cost of using the resource (Gordon 1954). In the presence of externalities, social marginal cost exceeds private marginal cost, and common property resources can still be degraded if an individual equates her marginal cost with her marginal benefit of utilizing the resource. These conditions lead to overexploitation of the resource and the dissipation of the scarcity rent. 2006 2024-11-21T09:51:09Z 2024-11-21T09:51:09Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160563 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Pender, John; and Tesfay, Girmay. 2006. Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia. In Strategies for sustainable land management in the East African Highlands. Pender, John; Place, Frank; and Ehui, Simeon K. (Eds.) Chapter 10. Pp. 257-276. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160563 |
| spellingShingle | land use land policies agriculture land management highlands sustainability Gebremedhin, Berhanu Pender, John L. Tesfay, Girmay Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia |
| title | Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia |
| title_full | Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia |
| title_short | Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia |
| title_sort | community natural resource management in the highlands of ethiopia |
| topic | land use land policies agriculture land management highlands sustainability |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160563 |
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