Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program

Authors

Randall Bluffstone, Portland State UniversityFollow
Eswaran Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute
Prakash Jha, ForestAction NepalFollow
Harisharan Luintel, Portland State UniversityFollow
Rajesh Bista, ForestAction NepalFollow
Mike Toman, World BankFollow
Naya Paudel, ForestAction Nepal
Bhim Adhikari, IDRC

Sponsor

World Bank

Published In

World Development

Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

1-2018

Subjects

Carbon sequestration -- Nepal, Community forestry -- Nepal, Carbon sequestration -- Governmental aspects

Abstract

Highlights

• Presumed open access forests have as little as 34% of those under collective action.

• No evidence that Community Forestry Programme forests store more carbon

.• Carbon from collective action not conditional on Community Forestry Programme.

Description

Copyright World Bank. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Published by Elsevier, the final version is available here.

DOI

10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.030

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/23041

Citation Details

Bluffstone, R., Somanathan, E., Jha, P., Luintel, H., Bista, R., Toman, M., ... & Adhikari, B. (2018). Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program.