Monday, June 16, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM South College SCOE480
Community-based Environmental Markets (Cbems): a Review of Hybrid Regimes for Natural Resource Governance
in-person
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas1, Tanya Hayes2, Abigail Bennett3, Graham Epstein4, Dan Holland5, Claudia Sattler6, Katrin Prager7, Xiangyu Jia8, Michael Cox9, and Dustin Garrick4
1Dept. of Political Science & ICTA-UAB, Spain, 2Seattle University, United States, 3Michigan State University, United States, 4University of Waterloo, Canada, 5NOAA, United States, 6ZALF, Germany, 7University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 8Beijing University, China, 9Dartmouth University, United States
Over the last few decades, the diversity of governance solutions proposed by scientists and policymakers for addressing mounting environmental problems has increased substantially. The traditional trichotomy of state, market and community governance has been replaced by a new interest in hybrid regimes in recognition that no single governance mode possesses the capabilities to address all current environmental problems. This paper takes stock of experiences that combine community and market-based governance solutions, or as we call them community-based environmental markets (CBEMs), to address environmental issues in a variety of resource management contexts. We first propose a classification system based on the authority held by communities and the type of good being transacted to identify four general classes of CBEMs. These include communal resource markets, communal service markets, collective resource markets and collective service markets. We then illustrate the utility of this classification system with a review of studies from the water, forest, pastures, fishery, agriculture and wildlife conservation sectors. We conclude with some hypotheses regarding the relative effectiveness of different types of CBEMs with respect to a range of social and environmental objectives.
