The rotten institution: corruption in natural resource management

By P. Robbins. 2000

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Subfields: Anthropology, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Farmer–herder conflicts, pastoral marginalisation and corruption: a case study from the inland Niger delta of Mali (2009, background): “…of the ‘rampant corruption affecting the totality of African countries’.3 Within the field of natural resources and environmental studies, political ecology has contributed more to the study of corruption and rent seeking than most other approaches (e.g. Ribot 1998; Robbins 2000; Brockington 2008).”
Is Corruption Bad for Environmental Sustainability? A Cross-National Analysis. (2006, background): “While corruption is not environmentally destructive in a general sense (Robbins 2000) poor governance results in bad policy formulation, management, and enforcement, and this can become apparent through problems with environmental sustainability (Damania et al. 2003).”
The importance of social drivers in the resilient provision of ecosystem services (2011, background): “Intermediate-level lack of accountability through corruption or avoidance in reporting or enforcement by state agents seeking to appease both their superiors and their constituents (Robbins, 2000; Laurance, 2004), or illicit use of local services (Robbins et al.”
Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers (2009, background): “There are many examples of substantial bureaucratic corruption in resource management (see for instance Iversen et al (2006) and Robbins (2000) on forestry).”
Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India (2006, background): “Robbins (2000) has further shown that the rural poor in Rajasthan are driven to participate in the corruption of forms of common property management from which they might be expected to benefit.”
The challenge of poor governance and corruption (2005, background): “For example, an interviewbased study of forest management in the Indian state of Rajasthan demonstrated the way a de jure institution transformed into a stable system of extra-legal exchanges (Robbins 2000).”
Madagascar aflame: landscape burning as peasant protest, resistance, or a resource management tool? (2002, background): “Such petty corruption is widespread around the globe (e.g. Prochaska 1986; Gupta 1995; Robbins 2000).”