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felderin irrigation system, torbel, switzerland | Case |
| this case was part of the original cpr database developed in the 1980s by edella schlager and shui yan tang at indiana university. the resource appropriated from felderin irrigation is water for irrigation. the felderin is one of the three irrigation networks in torbel, a village in the swiss alps. the felderin is regulated without central authority or official mechanisms for adjudication. upkeep is provided by a half dozen men working communally one day in the spring, and the system is then... | 09 Aug 2016 |
barrio san antonio irrigation system, tabaco city, philippines | Case |
| the barrio san antonio irrigation system is located at the northern foot of mount mayon approximately 7 km west of the city of tabaco, albay province, in the philippines. the original case spans from approximately the 1930s to the late 1970s. it catalogues an action situation in which an older dam provides the irrigation needs of approximately 30 rice farmers tilling 20-25 hectares of land, respectively (depending on wet or dry season). in comparison, a government-built dam completed in 1977... | 09 Aug 2016 |
ten - dakh branch watercourse irrigation, punjab province, pakistan | Case |
| this case was part of the original cpr database developed in the 1980s by edella schlager and shui yan tang at indiana university. the resource appropriated from watercourse ten-dakh branch is water for irrigation. based on an intensive survey of ten improved watercourses in punjab, this study shows the inadequacy of present forms of social organization of watercourses for insuring their adequate maintenance. the study suggests the following sociological characteristics as conducive to good... | 09 Aug 2016 |
chhahare khola ko kulo, baruwa village panchayat, sindhu palchok district, nepal | Case |
| this case was part of the original cpr database developed in the 1980s by edella schlager and shui yan tang at indiana university. this case is also part of the original nepal irrigation institutions and systems (niis) database developed in the 1980's by a team of researchers under the direction of dr. elinor ostrom at indiana university. in addition, this case is also part of a longitudinal study that has repeatedly investigated 19 farmer-managed irrigation systems (fmis) in the indrawati... | 09 Aug 2016 |
naya dhara ko kulo (kot village panchayat), sindhu palchok district, nepal | Case |
| this case study is part of the original common-pool resource (cpr) database developed in the 1980's by edella schlager and shui yan tang at indiana university. a summary of the original cpr coding conducted in the 1980s by edella schlager and shui yan tang at indiana university may be found under the cpr tab in the institutional analysis section below. this case is also part of the original nepal irrigation institutions and systems (niis) database developed in the 1980's by a team of... | 09 Aug 2016 |
char hazar irrigation system (charhajar), damauli village, tanahu district, nepal | Case |
| the char hazar irrigation system is located in damauli village in the tanahu district, about 65 kilometers to the east of pokhara city in nepal. the resource unit is the water for irrigation. the primary water source for char hazar is sange khola, which is a tributary of the madi river. farmers share water delivery turn by turn, according to the location of the land along the length of the field channel. farmers agree on a schedule for maintenance, and labor is mobilized to desilt and clean... | 09 Aug 2016 |
lothar farmer-managed irrigation system, chitwan district, nepal | Case |
| lothar is a farmer-managed irrigation system in the chitwan district, about 30 kilometres east of the city of bharatpur in nepal. the resource unit is water for irrigation. the system comprises of a main canal, an approach canal, six branch canals, and field channels. individual farmers are responsible for maintaining field channels and tertiary canals. during the time of the original case, which spans from 1985 to 1986, there was no history of conflicts in the irrigation system. this case... | 09 Aug 2016 |
gageoda (kagodo) island myok grounds, south korea | Case |
| this case was part of the original cpr database developed in the 1980s by edella schlager and shui yan tang at indiana university. seaweed is the resource appropriated from the kagodo myok grounds. it is harvested from the area surrounding the isolated island of kagodo, off the southwest coast of korea. the people collectively own the seaweed grounds and one member from each household can access the grounds. the author discusses three fishing villages and the differences among them in the... | 09 Aug 2016 |
mathematical models in social ecological systems | Case |
| this case is an umbrella to capture a range of models of ecological, social, social-ecological, and other natural systems (e.g. climate). in addition, there are several models whose main purpose is to demonstrate model visualization features related to a number of famous mathematical models including the lorenz model, the discrete logistic, and predator prey models. the lorenz model, probably the most famous of all simple models, is the first ever model of a chaotic dynamical system. chaos... | 09 Aug 2016 |
gwembe tonga land tenure, zambezi valley, zambia | Case |
| arable land in this case, following ostrom (2005: 24), is both a common pool resource and a public good. bush land used for shifting cultivation is a common pool resource. rights to this land belong to whoever clears it. there are virtually no rules governing access, except acceptance into a community that claims the bush land as part of its territory. gaining acceptance is a simple matter of asking permission or just establishing residence in a place. river land is a common pool resource.... | 09 Aug 2016 |
matsigenka agriculture, manu biosphere reserve, peru | Case |
| arable land among the matsigenka is a public good (ostrom 2005: 24). at base the matsigenka do not have institutions that regulate who can access arable land. anyone who has been incorporated into a community has the right to access arable land. the only requirement before opening up a new field is that people must state their intent. this practice decreases the probability of clearing a plot of land that someone else was planning to clear. in short, use of arable land does not affect the... | 09 Aug 2016 |
tarahumara gentiles agriculture, sierra madres, northwest mexico | Case |
| the resource under consideration here is arable land. arable land is a common pool resource in this case. on the dimensions of subtractability and excludability defined by ostrom (2005), land is highly subtractble, but it is difficult to exclude resource users from land that is not continuously cultivated. in essence, cultivating a parcel of land means that there is less available land in the system; however, it is very difficult to exclude people from obtaining sufficient land for their... | 09 Aug 2016 |
parwara village van panchayat: institutional change | Case |
| the main appropriated resources are grass, used mainly for cattle grazing and compost, and forest tress, used mostly for fuel wood and construction timber. almost all of the total resource units appropriated in the parwara van panchayat (vp) forest are officially regulated by the parwara van panchayat committee (vpc), timber and resin are regulated by the state forest department. the nainital district magistrate, and the van panchayat inspector, who is employed by the state revenue department,... | 09 Aug 2016 |
brander-taylor model and variations | Case |
| brander-taylor easter island model and its variations. brander and taylor (1998) summarizes the background of the model as the following., easter island (also called rapa nui) is a small pacific island over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the coast of chile, with a population (as of the early 1990's) of about 2,100. for the past two centuries, easter island has been regarded as a major archaeological and anthropological mystery. in particular, the polynesian civilization in place at the time... | 09 Aug 2016 |
the irrigation system of the northwest murcia region (spain): robustness of ses to the intrusion of new resource users | Case |
| farmers in the northwest murcia region (spain) have used for centuries the water from springs to irrigate their lands. they are organized in irrigation communities adapted to cope with rainfall variability. this system was robust in terms of its use of the water emerging from the springs to irrigate small patches of land. in recent decades, large agrarian companies have settled in this region and use groundwater to irrigate new lands. this intrusion had led the levels of this resource to drop... | 09 Aug 2016 |