How institutions elude design: river basin management and sustainable livelihoods.
dc.contributor.author | Cleaver, Frances D. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Franks, Tom R. | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-09T15:02:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-09T15:02:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cleaver, F.D. and Franks, T.R. (2005). How institutions elude design: river basin management and sustainable livelihoods. University of Bradford. Bradford Centre for International Development. BCID Research Paper, No. 12. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2964 | |
dc.description | Yes | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper challenges ideas that it is possible to `get the institutions right¿ in the management of natural resources. It engages with the literature and policy specifying `design principles¿ for robust institutions and uses data from a river basin management project in Usangu, Tanzania, to illustrate the complexity of institutional evolution. The paper draws on emerging `post-institutionalist¿ perspectives to reject over-formalised managerial approaches in favour of those that accept the dynamic nature of institutional formation, and accommodate a variety of partial and contingent solutions. Data from Usangu suggests that external `crafting¿ is inevitably problematic because, to a certain extent, institutions elude design. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Bradford Centre for International Development | en |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/des/research/papers/ResearchPaper12CleaverFranks.pdf | en |
dc.rights | © 2005 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk). | en |
dc.subject | River basin management | en |
dc.subject | Institutional design principles | en |
dc.subject | Tanzania | en |
dc.subject | Dynamic institutional formation | en |
dc.title | How institutions elude design: river basin management and sustainable livelihoods. | en |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.JournalTitle | BCID Working Paper Series 2002 - 2007 | en |
dc.type.version | published version paper | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-07-18T13:55:32Z |