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- Title
Adopting Local Environmental Institutions.
- Authors
Meyer, Stephen M.; Konisky, David M.
- Abstract
Communities are increasingly turning to local environmental institutions (LETs) to address unmet environmental challenges. Yet there has been very little empirical analysis of LETs, and we know surprisingly little about their origins. In this article, the authors use a rational choice framework to examine the incentives and disincentives communities face in deciding whether to establish LEIs. In particular, the authors study the decision of communities to adopt local wetlands bylaws under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act. Using event history analysis, the authors find strong evidence that environmental need, economic attributes, and economic constraints have strong effects on the impulse of communities to adopt LEIs.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; WETLAND management; COMMUNITIES; WETLAND conservation; EVENT history analysis
- Publication
Political Research Quarterly, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1065-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1065912906298533