In this project, we examine studies that evaluate the role that
religion plays in accomplishing important community-level natural
resource governance functions. Two methods were used to
populate the list of studies analyzed in this project. The first
method involved conducting searches in standard academic databases
and relevant journals, as well as in the library at the
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana
University. The second method involved a snowball procedure,
whereby studies analyzed in the first step were used to find other
studies that referenced them or were referenced by them. To be
considered for analysis, a study must describe one or more cases.
Our criteria for and definition of a case is that it consists of one
or more geographically proximate communities that: (1) manage
the same type of resource and (2) that have similar enough
religious beliefs and associated natural resource management
strategies to enable their analysis as a single system.