Kimberlee Chang /polisci/ en Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance /polisci/2020/10/16/voluntary-leadership-and-emergence-institutions-self-governance <span>Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-10-16T16:30:26-06:00" title="Friday, October 16, 2020 - 16:30">Fri, 10/16/2020 - 16:30</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/polisci/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/krister.jpg?h=7944ae5f&amp;itok=p6RtvS9y" width="1200" height="600" alt="Andersson"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/959"> 2020 </a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/991"> 2020 Graduate Student Publications </a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/54"> News </a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/318"> Publication Showcase </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/821" hreflang="en">Adriana Molina Garzon</a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/596" hreflang="en">Kimberlee Chang</a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/160" hreflang="en">Krister Andersson</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>By: Krister Andersson, Kimberlee Chang, Adriana Molina-Garzon</p><p>Publication Date: October 2020</p><p>Abstract:</p><p>&nbsp;Strong local institutions are important for the successful governance of common-pool resources (CPRs), but why do such institutions emerge in the first place and why do they sometimes not emerge at all? We argue that voluntary local leaders play an important role in the initiation of self-governance institutions because such leaders can directly affect local users’ perceived costs and benefits associated with self-rule. Drawing on recent work on leadership in organizational behavior, we propose that voluntary leaders can facilitate a cooperative process of local rule creation by exhibiting unselfish behavior and leading by example. We posit that such forms of leadership are particularly important when resource users are weakly motivated to act collectively, such as when confronted with “creeping” environmental problems. We test these ideas by using observations from a laboratory-in-the-field experiment with 128 users of forest commons in Bolivia and Uganda. We find that participants’ agreement to create new rules was significantly stronger in group rounds where voluntary, unselfish leaders were present. We show that unselfish leadership actions make the biggest difference for rule creation under high levels of uncertainty, such as when the resource is in subtle decline and intragroup communication sparse.</p><p>Read it <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/15/2007230117" rel="nofollow">here!</a></p><p>Also, Today published a press release about the article that you can read <a href="/asmagazine/2020/10/15/unselfish-leadership-key-tackling-creeping-environmental-problems" rel="nofollow">here!</a></p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:30:26 +0000 Anonymous 5509 at /polisci Contextual factors that enable forest users to engage in tree-planting for forest restoration /polisci/2020/06/16/contextual-factors-enable-forest-users-engage-tree-planting-forest-restoration <span>Contextual factors that enable forest users to engage in tree-planting for forest restoration</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-06-16T09:12:58-06:00" title="Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 09:12">Tue, 06/16/2020 - 09:12</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/polisci/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/andersson_2015_5.jpg?h=2fac9897&amp;itok=apyoThqF" width="1200" height="600" alt="Krister"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/887"> 2019 </a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/54"> News </a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/318"> Publication Showcase </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/596" hreflang="en">Kimberlee Chang</a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/160" hreflang="en">Krister Andersson</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Krister Andersson, University of Colorado Boulder; Kimberlee Chang, University of Colorado Boulder&nbsp;</p><p>Published: October 4, 2019</p><p>Abstract:&nbsp;</p><p>Social, biophysical, and institutional contexts affect forest users’ incentives to work together to restore forests. With renewed government commitments to support such activities, we argue that effective interventions need to consider several context-specific factors – such as the user groups’ future discount rates, opportunity costs, and collective-action capabilities – because these factors will help determine the effectiveness of such interventions. To test the effects of a suite of contextual factors, we analyzed observations from 184 different groups in 133 forests across eight developing countries. We find that the combination of certain enabling factors increases the probability of users undertaking forest improvement activities, and that social contexts can condition the effect of institutional and biophysical contexts. Our findings carry implications for the design and implementation of future interventions to restore forests in developing countries.</p><p>Click <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.05.036" rel="nofollow">here</a>&nbsp;to read more!</p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:12:58 +0000 Anonymous 5169 at /polisci Kimberlee Chang Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship /polisci/2018/04/19/kimberlee-chang-receives-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship <span>Kimberlee Chang Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2018-04-19T11:05:24-06:00" title="Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 11:05">Thu, 04/19/2018 - 11:05</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/polisci/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/kimberlee_chang_1.jpg?h=0544a951&amp;itok=XpG3KMOi" width="1200" height="600" alt="kimberlee thumbnail"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/54"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/596" hreflang="en">Kimberlee Chang</a> <a href="/polisci/taxonomy/term/160" hreflang="en">Krister Andersson</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/polisci/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/kimberlee_chang_1.jpg?itok=k9zfayhX" width="750" height="1050" alt="kimberlee photo"> </div> </div> Kimberlee Chang works with Dr. Krister Andersson to examine how governance institutions facilitate sustainable resource use by local communities. In her project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), she asks the research question "How do diverse communities work together to overcome common collective action problems in social life?” More specifically, "How do diverse communities cooperate&nbsp;to manage limited agricultural resources&nbsp;under the context of scarce or unpredictable resource availability?". To answer these questions, she focuses on investigating effective governance institutions that facilitate cooperation in resource use and climate change adaptation. This work aims to inform policy making that will enhance the resilience of agricultural communities in dryland regions affected by climate change.&nbsp;&nbsp;<p><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-blue ucb-link-button-default ucb-link-button-regular" href="https://www.nsfgrfp.org/" rel="nofollow"> <span class="ucb-link-button-contents"> <i class="fa-solid fa-up-right-from-square">&nbsp;</i> More Information the NSFGRFP </span> </a> </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:05:24 +0000 Anonymous 2360 at /polisci