期刊名称：The Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies
印刷版ISSN：1602-2297
出版年度：2002
卷号：1
期号：2
出版社：Roskilde Univ
摘要：Community Participation in Natural Resource Management projects has been aconcept much debated in international development planning and policy-making. However,the debates tend to be based on undocumented postulates and implicitly normative statementson why, when, and how local communities should or should not be involved. Approachingthe issue by using Institutional Rational Choice (IRC) theory could provide a more consistentbasis for discussion. But here the problem seems to be the lack of empirical grounding of thetheory.This article is an attempt to bring the discussions a step further at two levels. At the empiricallevel, it provides some quasi-experimental empirical results from the author's own researchin the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, West Africa, in support of the theoretical hypothesisthat community-based institutional arrangements are more cost-effective than centralizedtypes of arrangement for sustainable provision and production of common pool goods andservices.At the methodological level, it suggests a methodological solution to some of the majorchallenges in making IRC-analysis operational in a quasi-experimental sense
