Inequality - also - matters to the quality of governance of natural resources
Natural resources constitute an important axis around which rural territorial dynamics revolve. This paper concludes that institutional practices which promote rule-based natural resource governance and gradually curb the veto possibilities of powerful actors are more likely to emerge in territories where political voice is not restricted to the economic elite.
Senior Researcher Helle Munk Ravnborg and her Nicaraguan colleague Ligia Gómez has identified notable differences when examining the importance of inequality for the institutional practices through which district-level governance of natural resource use takes place. The article is based on empirical registration of how applications for and denouncements of natural resource use are dealt with in two Nicaraguan rural territories.
This research is part of the ”Rural Territorial Dynamics” programmecoordinated by Rimisp – Latin American Center for Rural Development and financed through a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, as well as being part of the ”Competing for Water” programme, coordinated by DIIS.
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