Connectivity and the governance of multilevel social-ecological systems: the role of social capital

ES Brondizio, E Ostrom… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
We discuss the challenges confronting environmental governance caused by the increasing
connectivity of resource-use systems and the growing functional interdependencies of …

Background on the institutional analysis and development framework

E Ostrom - Policy studies journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides an overview of the structure and evolution of the Institutional Analysis
and Development (IAD) framework and a short introduction to its use by scholars to analyze …

Institutional rational choice: An assessment of the institutional analysis and development framework

E Ostrom - Theories of the Policy Process, Second Edition, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter focuses on the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework that has
evolved out of the work of many colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy …

Improved indicators of water use performance and productivity for sustainable water conservation and saving

LS Pereira, I Cordery, I Iacovides - Agricultural water management, 2012 - Elsevier
Water use concepts and performance descriptors that may be useful in defining
conservation and saving of water are discussed with the aim of improving the overall …

The meaning of social capital and its link to collective action

E Ostrom, TK Ahn - Handbook of social capital: The troika of …, 2009 - elgaronline.com
Few social scientific concepts have gathered so much attention and so many followers in
such a short period of time than the concept of social capital. The fundamental idea can be …

Private and common property rights

E Ostrom, C Hess - Encyclopedia of law and economics, 2011 - elgaronline.com
The relationship between private property and common property has engaged both legal
and economic scholars in a long series of controversies over the meaning, the sequence of …

Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change

E Ostrom, X Basurto - Journal of institutional economics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Most powerful analytical tools used in the social sciences are well suited for studying static
situations. Static and mechanistic analysis, however, is not adequate to understand the …

The challenge of common-pool resources

E Ostrom - Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Our Common Future, which created a serious discussion about how we should engage in
sustainable development of the world's future, including how to address global resource …

Robustness trade-offs in social-ecological systems

MA Janssen, JM Anderies - International journal of the commons, 2007 - JSTOR
The governance of common-pool resources can be meaningfully examined from the
somewhat broader perspective of the governance of social-ecological systems (SESs) …

Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal

O Cifdaloz, A Regmi, JM Anderies, AA Rodriguez - Ecology and Society, 2010 - JSTOR
Change in freshwater availability is arguably one of the most pressing issues associated
with global change. Agriculture, which uses roughly 70% of the total global freshwater …