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Community-based Governance

Community-Based Governance is a form of local self-governance in which decision-making authority and responsibility for resource management are vested in geographically or culturally defined communities, distinguished by participatory institutions, collective action, and autonomy from centralized state control.

726

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38K

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1.5K

Authors

706

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

192

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Publications

726

Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns, Ian Scoones · World Development · 1999 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community

Siobhán O’Mahony, Fabrizio Ferraro · Academy of Management Journal · 2007 · 879 citations

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From Community-Based Resource Management to Complex Systems: The Scale Issue and Marine Commons

Fikret Berkes · Ecology and Society · 2006 · 508 citations · Full text

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Local tourism governance: a comparison of three network approaches

Narelle Beaumont, Dianne Dredge · Journal of Sustainable Tourism · 2009 · 452 citations

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Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia

Aniruddha Dasgupta, Victoria A. Beard · Development and Change · 2007 · 426 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. ML
    Melissa Leach

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 1.7K citations

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  2. IS
    Ian Scoones

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 1.7K citations

    4

    h-index

  3. FN
    Friday Njaya

    Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi

    4 publications · 174 citations

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  4. NW
    Nelson W. Polsby

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 738 citations

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  5. BS
    Barbara Schröter

    Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany

    4 publications · 103 citations

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Institutions

706

  1. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    21 publications

    808 citations

  2. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    358 citations

  4. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    783 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    439 citations

  6. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    383 citations

  7. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    332 citations

  8. University of the Western Cape

    Cape Town, South Africa

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    277 citations

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Venues

  1. Sustainability

    14 publications · 392 citations

    14

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  2. Society & Natural Resources

    13 publications · 605 citations

    13

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  3. World Development

    12 publications · 2.7K citations

    12

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  4. Community Development Journal

    11 publications · 694 citations

    11

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  5. Environmental Conservation

    10 publications · 612 citations

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