Title: Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Abstract: Preface vii CHAPTER 1: Introduction by Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, and Samuel Bowles 1 CHAPTER 2: Collective Action on the Commons: The Role of Inequality by Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau 10 CHAPTER 3: Inequality and Collective Action by Pranab Bardhan, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Alexander Karaivanov 36 CHAPTER 4: Adoption of a New Regulation for the Governance of Common-Pool Resources by a Heterogeneous Population by Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom 60 CHAPTER 5: Inequality and the Governance of Water Resources in Mexico and South India by Pranab Bardhan and Jeff Dayton-Johnson 97 CHAPTER 6: Managing Pacific Salmon: The Role of Distributional Conflicts in Coastal Salish Fisheries by Sara Singleton 131 CHAPTER 7: Heterogeneity and Collective Action for Effort Regulation: Lessons from Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries by Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau 159 CHAPTER 8: Wealth Inequality and Overexploitation of the Commons: Field Experiments in Colombia by Juan-Camilo Cardenas 205 CHAPTER 9: Collective Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter? by Eswaran Somanathan, Rajagopal Prabhakar, and Bhupendra Singh Mehta 234 CHAPTER 10: Inequality, Collective Action, and the Environment: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Nepal by Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee, and Rinki Sarkar 246 CHAPTER 11: Gender Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability by Bina Agarwal 274 CHAPTER 12: Inequality and Environmental Protection by James K. Boyce 314 Index 349