Political Stability, Security of Tenure, and Natural Resource Conservation in Developing Countries

发展中国家的政治稳定、保有权保障和自然资源保护

• 批准号: 9121859
• 负责人: Robert Deacon
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-04-01 至 1994-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9121859&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Political; Stability; Security; Tenure; Natural

The purpose of this project is to investigate the general proposition that stable political and legal institutions are key ingredients for the secure property rights needed to induce investment in and conservation of natural resource and environmental assets. The focus of attention will be on the way tropical forests are used in developing countries and the primary goal is to assess, empirically, the importance of stable political and legal institutions to observed measures of the way these resources are used. This work will be carried out first by developing a theoretical framework that relates insecurity of tenure to the conservation incentives of private resource owners and public resource managers. Empirical analysis, based on the theoretical framework, will compare the principal hypothesis to two alternatives, that tropical deforestation and similar phenomena are caused by the process of economic growth, and that the primary cause of these outcomes is population pressure. Principal data sources have been identified to provide the information needed for the empirical work. These sources provide data of three types that are needed to examine the hypothesis of interest: (1) indicators of tropical forest and other natural resource use in developing countries; (2) measures of legal and political conditions in these countries; (3) information on social and economic conditions. Major effort will be directed to data collection and exploratory econometric analysis.

本项目的目的是调查一个普遍的命题，即稳定的政治和法律的体制是吸引对自然资源和环境资产的投资和养护所需的有保障的财产权的关键因素。重点将放在发展中国家使用热带森林的方式上，主要目标是从经验上评估稳定的政治和法律的体制对观察这些资源使用方式的重要性。这项工作将首先通过制定一个理论框架来进行，该框架将保有权的不安全与私人资源所有者和公共资源管理者的养护激励措施联系起来。根据理论框架进行的经验分析将把主要假设与两个备选假设进行比较，即热带森林砍伐和类似现象是经济增长过程造成的，而这些结果的主要原因是人口压力。确定了主要数据来源，以提供经验工作所需的信息。这些来源提供了审查有关假设所需的三类数据：（1）发展中国家热带森林和其他自然资源使用情况的指标;（2）这些国家法律的和政治状况的衡量标准;（3）社会和经济状况的资料。主要工作将集中在数据收集和探索性计量经济学分析。