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A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand

Esther Mwangi, Elinor Ostrom

Institutions and Sustainability > Property Rights, Collective Action and Natural Resources > 195-222

In analyzing the interactions between institutions and ecology, it is useful to evaluate the robustness of the designed governance system and the resilience of the ecological system that together comprise a Social-Ecological System (SES). In this chapter, we will examine the patterns of interaction between ever-changing governance institutions related to the highly variable ecology of Eastern Africa...

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Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas: Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action

Elinor Ostrom

Springer Series in Game Theory > Games, Groups, and the Global Good > Cooperation and Problems of the Commons > 207-228

Extensive field research has found that when users of a resource do gain good feedback about the effect of their actions on a resource and can build norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness, they are frequently able to craft new institutions to solve puzzling dilemmas. We need to ask: How do different kinds of institutions support or undermine norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness? The finding...

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Multi-Level Governance and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen

Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict > Resource Degradation, Institutions and Conflict > 239-259

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Doing Institutional Analysis Digging Deeper Than Markets and Hierarchies

Elinor Ostrom

Handbook of New Institutional Economics > Perspectives > 819-848

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Do institutions for collective action evolve?

Elinor Ostrom

Journal of Bioeconomics > 2014 > 16 > 1 > 3-30

In this paper I will provide an overview of our findings from studying irrigation systems in the field so that readers who are not familiar with our prior research gain at least an initial sense of these findings. I will provide a second short overview —this time of the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework offering a general method for doing institutional analysis. I will then introduce...

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The social–ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries

Xavier Basurto, Stefan Gelcich, Elinor Ostrom

Global Environmental Change > 2013 > 23 > 6 > 1366-1380

Ostrom proposed the underpinnings of a framework for the systematic study of the governance of complex social–ecological systems. Here we hypothesize that Ostrom's social–ecological system framework can be useful to build a classification system for small-scale benthic fisheries, regarding their governance processes and outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge accumulation...

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Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups

David Sloan Wilson, Elinor Ostrom, Michael E. Cox

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization > 2013 > 90 > Supplement > S21-S32

This article generalizes a set of core design principles for the efficacy of groups that was originally derived for groups attempting to manage common-pool resources (CPRs) such as irrigation systems, forests, and fisheries. The dominant way of thinking until recently was that commons situations invariably result in the tragedy of overuse, requiring either privatization (when possible) or top-down...

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Interconnected risks and solutions for a planet under pressure—overview and introduction

Mark Stafford-Smith, Owen Gaffney, Lidia Brito, Elinor Ostrom, more

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability > 2012 > 4 > 1 > 3-6

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Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity

Michael D. McGinnis, Elinor Ostrom

Public Administration Review > 72 > 1 > 15 - 25

Among Vincent Ostrom's many contributions to the study of public administration, policy, and political science, the concept of polycentricity remains his single most important legacy. This essay locates the origins of this concept in Ostrom's early research on resource management in the Western United States and demonstrates its continuing influence throughout The Intellectual Crisis in Public Administration,...

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Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?

Elinor Ostrom

Economic Theory > 2012 > 49 > 2 > 353-369

The literature on global climate change has largely ignored the small but positive steps that many public and private actors are taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A global policy is frequently posited as the only strategy needed. It is important to balance the major attention on global solutions as the only strategy for coping with climate change. Positive actions are underway at multiple,...

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Instytucje i środowisko

Elinor Ostrom

Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance > 2012 > 2(20) > 83-99

W swoim artykule Elinor Ostrom przedstawia krytyczną analizę wyników wielu badań empirycznych, współczesnej teorii gier i własnych eksperymentów z dziedziny projektowania instytucji w odniesieniu do nadmiernej eksploatacji zasobów wspólnych. Autorka wskazuje na fakt, iż mając możliwość porozumiewania się, eksperymentowania i modyfikacji reguł instytucjonalnych, ludzie wypracowują różnorodne − niekoniecznie...

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Honoring James Buchanan

Elinor Ostrom

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization > 2011 > 80 > 2 > 370-373

Honoring James Buchanan is an honor and a privilege. I review the influence of his work on my own research and that of colleagues associated with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. The Calculus of Consent helps to explain the capabilities and limits of citizen self-organization and led to a number of studies in metropolitan areas across the United States. In more recent years, efforts...

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Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries

T.K. Ahn, Elinor Ostrom, James Walker

Ecological Economics > 2011 > 70 > 9 > 1580-1589

This study reports results from a new series of experiments that examine the robustness of face-to-face communication as a cooperation-facilitating institution in common-pool resource settings. Results are reported from nine experiment sessions, initially designed for pedagogical purposes. The sessions were conducted between 1998 and 2007 as part of a series of summer institutes on institutional analysis...

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Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

Elinor Ostrom

Policy Studies Journal > 39 > 1 > 7 - 27

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 a diversity of puzzles. It then addresses the relationship of IAD to a more complex framework for the analysis of social‐ecological systems and concludes with a short discussion of future challenges facing IAD scholars.

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Handeln statt Warten: Ein mehrstufiger Ansatz zur Bewältigung des Klimaproblems

Elinor Ostrom

Leviathan > 2011 > 39 > 2 > 267-278

Die Klimaproblematik ist sehr komplex und auf der internationalen politischen Agenda immer noch relativ neu. Daher ist es nicht sinnvoll, auf den Abschluss eines globalen Abkommens zu warten. Es wäre besser, einen mehrstufigen Lösungsansatz zu verfolgen, der auf der lokalen Ebene ansetzt, Vorteile klimapolitischer Anstrengungen auf mehreren Ebenen maximiert, und ein Prozess des Experimentierens und...

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Carl Folke, Åsa Jansson, Johan Rockström, Per Olsson, more

Ambio > 2011 > 40 > 7 > 719-738

Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social–ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance...

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Analyzing collective action

Elinor Ostrom

Agricultural Economics > 41 > s1 > 155 - 166

Collective‐action problems pervade all societies as well as ecological systems used by humans. Substantial evidence has accrued during the last several decades that human actors are able to solve some (but definitely not all) collective‐action problems on their own without external rules and enforcement imposed from the outside. In this article, I review some of the structural variables that have...

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A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries

T.K. Ahn, Elinor Ostrom, James Walker

Ecological Economics > 2010 > 69 > 12 > 2624-2633

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Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change

Elinor Ostrom

Global Environmental Change > 2010 > 20 > 4 > 550-557

The 20th anniversary issue of Global Environmental Change provides an important opportunity to address the core questions involved in addressing “global environmental” problems—especially those related to climate change. Climate change is a global collective-action problem since all of us face the likelihood of extremely adverse outcomes that could be reduced if many participants take expensive actions...

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Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal

Wai Fung Lam, Elinor Ostrom

Policy Sciences > 2010 > 43 > 1 > 1-25

Improving irrigation systems in Asian countries has been a high priority for the allocation of international aid. Substantial funds have been allocated to adopt the “best practices” of hiring external water engineers to construct modern systems to replace those that farmers built. These expensive investments have infrequently led to long-term improvement in the operation of irrigation systems in Asia...

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A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand

Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas: Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action

Multi-Level Governance and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

Doing Institutional Analysis Digging Deeper Than Markets and Hierarchies

Do institutions for collective action evolve?

The social–ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries

Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups

Interconnected risks and solutions for a planet under pressure—overview and introduction

Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity

Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?

Instytucje i środowisko

Honoring James Buchanan

Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries

Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

Handeln statt Warten: Ein mehrstufiger Ansatz zur Bewältigung des Klimaproblems

Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Analyzing collective action

A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries

Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change

Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal

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