Conservation, markets and justice - Part 1: Experimental economics data

This collection contains data from several experiments, including the predictions and decisions made by participants during different games, as well as linked data from pre- and post-experimental questionnaires. Data are recorded by enumerators using pre-prepared forms and subsequently input into Stata for analysis. The datasets include results from two different experimental games, respectively designed for eliciting norms of procedural and distributional justice. Datasets from case sites will be linked through the use of a unique ID assigned to each individual.
The experimental economics games have been calibrated to ensure that variation within communities is captured. Separate collections have been created with ethnographic participatory video data and survey questionnaire data as all three research local conceptions of environmental justice through different methods (See Related Resources for the other two data collections). <p>This research project will contribute to the challenge to reconcile forest conservation with social justice for local people in developing countries. To do so, the project will generate new empirical data about what social justice means to these local people and work with donors, NGOs and policy-makers to bring this new knowledge into practice.
The project will conduct research in three countries, China, Tanzania and Venezuela. In each site we will research local conceptions of environmental justice, for example what different groups of local people consider to be the fairest way of making decisions about forest management options, and what they consider to be the fairest way of distributing the costs and benefits associated with any intervention. We will test for the presence of some well known principles of justice using surveys and experimental economic games. But we will also employ more open, ethnographic methods for a more inductive approach to identifying justice norms. In addition to comparisons across countries and across intervention type, we will compare local conceptions of justice with those that are evident in the conservation interventions in that particular site.</p>