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Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective

Anderies, John M.; Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor - 2004

"What makes social-ecological systems robust? In this paper we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that helps to identify potential...

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The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems

Gardner, Roy; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 1987

Published as:"The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems," Rationality and Society 2(3), July 1990, 335-358."A large, multidisciplinary literature focuses on the problems occurring when multiple individuals concurrently use common-pool resources such as fisheries, grazing areas, airsheds, oil...

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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002

Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...

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Governing Social-Ecological Systems

Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor; Tesfatsion, L.; … - 2006

"Social-ecological systems are complex adaptive systems where social and biophysical agents are interacting at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The main challenge for the study of governance of social-ecological systems is improving our understanding of the conditions under which...

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How theory is used and articulated in qualitative research: Development of a new typology

Bradbury-Jones, Caroline; Taylor, Julie; Herber, Oliver - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 135-141

There is a long tradition within qualitative research of theory being central and of critical importance. Qualitative … research theory often equates with the methodologies used but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus … among scholars regarding how theory and methodology are related. This article furthers the debates on how theories are used …

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