Dr. Pranietha Mudliar (Assistant Professor of Policy) of ENVS and ENVS student Laura O’Brien (SP ’21) publish research on government interactions and transformations in Environmental Science and Policy. The paper, “Crowding-out lower-level authorities: Interactions and transformations of higher and lower-level authorities in Kenya’s polycentric fisheries” examines how governments interact with each other for managing Kenya’s fisheries in Lake Victoria. Findings indicate that higher-level governments take over lower-level functions. Lower-levels resist higher level authorities by performing higher-level functions. In addition, higher-level governments have high levels of cooperation with each other, which increases oversight over lower-level authorities.
In combination, these interactions crowd-out lower-level governments from core fisheries management functions to concentrate policy development and implementation with higher-level governments. Meanwhile, illegal and overfishing in Lake Victoria continue.
Link to the article: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cUJ45Ce0rgADL