Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management: Frances Cleaver

This study questions the idea that appropriate mechanisms can be designed to ensure optimum resource use, beneficial collective action and hence to build social capital. I argue here that the school of 'institutional crafting' in natural resource management is based on concepts which are inadequately socially informed and which ill-reflect the complexity, diversity and ad hoc nature of institutional formation.