Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability

Preface vii CHAPTER 1 Introduction Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, and Samuel Bowles 1(9) CHAPTER 2 Collective Action on the Commons: The Role of Inequality Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau 10(26) CHAPTER 3 Inequality and Collective Action Pranab Bardhan, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Alexander Karaivanov 36(24) CHAPTER 4 Adoption of a New Regulation for the Governance of Common-Pool Resources by a Heterogeneous Population Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom 60(37) CHAPTER 5 Inequality and the Governance of Water Resources in Mexico and South India Pranab Bardhan and Jeff Dayton-Johnson 97(34) CHAPTER 6 Managing Pacific Salmon: The Role of Distributional Conflicts in Coastal Salish Fisheries Sara Singleton 131(28) CHAPTER 7 Heterogeneity and Collective Action for Effort Regulation: Lessons from Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau 159(46) CHAPTER 8 Wealth Inequality and Overexploitation of the Commons: Field Experiments in Colombia Juan-Camilo Cardenas 205(29) CHAPTER 9 Collective Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter? Eswaran Somanathan, Rajagopal Prabhakar, and Bhupendra Singh Mehta 234(12) CHAPTER 10 Inequality, Collective Action, and the Environment: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Nepal Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee, and Rinki Sarkar 246(28) CHAPTER 11 Gender Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability Bina Agarwal 274(40) CHAPTER 12 Inequality and Environmental Protection James K. Boyce 314(35) Index 349