This paper is part of a political science research project on the anti-speciesist movement in France and Quebec. This movement, which rejects the domination of animals by humans, has legitimacy issues and struggles to find its place in the "space of social movements" (Mathieu, 2007). Indeed, it is not recognized as a fully legitimate movement, whic...
Karnataka, renowned for its mulberry silk, has long been a cornerstone of India's sericulture industry. The state's commitment to sericulture, driven by a legacy of over two centuries, is evident in its extensive mulberry cultivation and significant employment generation, particularly for women and youth. Despite its prominence, Karnataka's sericul...
Given the multiple challenges that agriculture faces, collective action is a potential pathway towards more sustainable agriculture. This article aims to contribute to the literature by assessing the extent to which collective action can meet the objective of both healthy and profitable production in the French West Indies. To do so, we call on the...
La dégradation de la ressource en eau et des écosystèmes aquatiques constituent des sujets de préoccupation majeurs aux échelles nationale, européenne et globale. Les pollutions diffuses d’origine agricole demeurent plus particulièrement un problème important dans les contextes français et européen malgré la mise en œuvre de politiques de lutte con...
Infrastructure and urban development projects continue to experience problems and tensions when it comes to external stakeholders, even though the importance of collaboration and dialogue between the external stakeholders and project developers is being increasingly stressed. There seems to be a lack of supporting policy and management strategies f...
Designing incentives for agri-environmental public good provision with threshold effects calls for payment mechanisms favouring critical mass participation and continuity of commitments at the landscape scale. We conducted a choice experiment to test the acceptability of a bonus in a scheme for improving river water quality in France. We introduce ...
Cooperation usually becomes harder to sustain as groups become larger because incentives to shirk increase with the number of potential contributors to collective action. But is this always the case? Here we study a binary-action cooperative dilemma where a public good is provided as long as not more than a given number of players shirk from a cost...
The sustainability of the ongoing national Campaign-Based Watershed Management (CBWM) program of Ethiopia depends on active participation of farmers in the planning and implementation activities. This study analyzes farmers’ participation level in CBWM program and factors that determine their participation, using mixed research methods. Key informa...
Access to the groundwater economy has frequently enabled an economic boom but is also believed to increase inequalities between farmers. The present study analyses social changes in a rural community as it entered and evolved in a groundwater economy, and today increasingly has to cope with groundwater depletion. The case study was conducted in the...
Enabling diverse actors to address interlinked sustainability issues is important and challenging. This paper focuses on how to design a dialogue-based knowledge co-production process to nurture collective action. Using the conceptualization of systems, target, and operational knowledge as the guiding framework, we designed and combined different c...
