Beyond Collective Action Problems: Perceived Fairness and Sustained Cooperation in Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal

by Atul Pokharel

Human history is full of examples of continuously maintained shared infrastructure. Our ability to survive and prosper depends on cooperation at some level, from the irrigation systems that enabled ancient humans to abandon their nomadic lifestyle to the free and open-source software that undergirds the internet. Thus, understanding the conditions under which community governance can be both equitable and sustainable is of critical importance to scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197755798
• ISBN13: 9780197755792
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 7.7"