Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon?

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dc.creatorBluffstone, Randy
dc.creatorSomanathan, Eswaran
dc.creatorJha, Prakash
dc.creatorLuintel, Harisharan
dc.creatorBista, Rajesh
dc.creatorToman, Mike
dc.creatorPaudel, Naya
dc.creatorAdhikari, Bhim
dc.date2018-02-12T17:33:51Z
dc.date2018-02-12T17:33:51Z
dc.date2018-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:37:28Z
dc.descriptionThis paper uses 620 forest plot measurements taken from a nationally representative sample of 130 Nepal community forests combined with information on forest collective action to estimate the effects of collective action on carbon per hectare and three additional measures of forest quality. We use three measures of forest user group collective action, including membership in the Nepal Community Forestry Programme (CFP). Collective action shows large, positive, and statistically significant carbon effects vis-à-vis communities exhibiting no evidence of forest collective action, which do not necessarily correspond with results for other measures of forest quality. We find that depending on the collective action definition and physiographic region, forests controlled by communities exhibiting no evidence of forest collective action may have as little as 34% of the carbon of forests governed under collective action. We do not, however, find evidence that CFP forests, our narrowest measure of collective action, store more carbon than forests outside the CFP. Our results therefore suggest that it is the collective action behavior and not the official CFP label that offers the largest gains. Carbon benefits from collective action are therefore not found to be conditional on CFP participation.
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dc.identifierWorld Development
dc.identifier0305-750X
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29354
dc.identifier10.1596/29354
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/407623
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectFORESTS
dc.subjectCARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PROGRAM
dc.subjectCOLLECTIVE ACTION
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY FORESTRY
dc.subjectCARBON SEQUESTRATION
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
dc.titleDoes Collective Action Sequester Carbon?
dc.titleEvidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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