Resumen de Local Governance and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Services by Rubaya Mining Diggers
The exploitation of natural resources conditions the survival of many poor populations in several regions of the world including the site of Rubaya (North Kivu). Characteristics related to natural resources require that governance be applied through institutional mechanisms that encourage economic agents to behave in a way that ensures the sustainability of resources and internalizes their external effects The main of this paper is to analyze the effects of local governance on the willingness to pay for environmental services by Rubaya’s mining diggers. This local governance concerns the membership of an association of diggers, the size of the association, trust, participation to ruler’s conception, ...
Results show that membership in association, farm assets, secondary livestock activity are positively influencing the likelihood of being willing to pay for environmental services while primary education and main income negatively influence it. The amount to be paid is positively influenced by the number of children, the trust, the size of the farm, the secondary activity of breeding; but negatively by the Protestant religion and the main income.
