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There follows a list of case studies in the SES Library.
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
Community Aqueduct and their Water User Associations in the Fuquene Lake Basin | Case |
| This case synthesizes nine studies conducted around the Fuquene Lake Basin's community aqueducts and Water Users Associations (WUAs) between 2004 and 2016. Many WUAs face significant challenges due to water availability and local political and economic dynamics threatening their existence. Governmental and non-governmental entities focus on conserving biodiversity and protecting ecosystems in the basin but need more significant efforts to articulate the WUAs to this work. Also, formal rules... | 21 Jul 2023 |
World-Earth System Governance | Case |
| This case is a focal point for 'gobal' models - i.e. modes with no particular spatial resolution. There are many of these - any economic growth model with some sort of ecological constraint. | 13 Jan 2023 |
Nohwa-do and Bogil-do, Communal Water Resources Management, South Korea | Case |
| Nohwa-do and Bogil-do are South Korea's southernmost islands, located off the coast of the province of Jeollanam-do. They are connected by a bridge and share a reservoir in Bogil-do. The inhabitants of the two islands have to share water since Nohwa-do lacked a reservoir.The primary causes of the commons dillemma in Nohwa-do and Bogil do are a lack of appropriate and effective public participation and a hierarchical decision-making process between local government and central government... | 09 Dec 2022 |
Biodiversity, resilience and the control of ecological-economic systems: the case of fire-driven rangelands | Case |
| This paper advances a model to assess how grazing pressure in rangelands may lead to change in the ecological state of the range with a particular focus on fire-dependent semi-arid rangelands. The impact of management decisions on fire-dependent grasslands, such as active fire suppression policies or the incidental fire suppression effect caused by allocating higher stock densities, serve to reduce the build-up of fuel loads, inhibit fire and its regulating effect on shrub growth. The loss or... | 12 Oct 2021 |
Love River Restoration, Taiwan | Case |
| Love River Restoration case is part of the comparative urban river analysis developed between 2019 to 2020 by Herlin Chien at United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Japan. The common pool resource system is the Love River (12 km) located in a metropolitan city of Kaohsiung with 2.7 million inhabitants. This case is identified by the Executive Yuan - central government in Taiwan as one of eleven rivers with more than 50% of mediumly polluted section in... | 21 Jul 2020 |
Wannian River Restoration, Taiwan | Case |
| Wannian River Restoration case is part of the comparative urban river restoration analysis developed between 2019 to 2020 by Herlin Chien at United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Japan. The common pool resource system is the Wannian River (5.5 km) located in a medium sized city of Pingtung with 200,000 inhabitants. This case is most known as one of the best practices of urban river restoration program in Taiwan, undertaking several major river form,... | 21 Jul 2020 |
The Emergence and Resilience of Self-organized Governance | Case |
| This case focuses on the theory of self-organized governance. It is based on developing a formal mathematical model of generalized interactions in the CIS framework. | 12 Mar 2020 |
FRG Organic Agriculture | Case |
| Organic agriculture in Germany jointly produces food and biodiversity, among others. The question of this case is how the regulation of the organic farming sector affects its expansion and level of innovation. | 11 Mar 2020 |
Overlapping institutions and their impact in the conservation of the Orinoco River Strategic Ecosystems | Case |
| Sustainability | 11 Mar 2020 |
Pastoral property rights in Azerbaijan | Case |
| rights for pasture access, use and managementy by mobile pastoralists in Azerbaijan | 11 Mar 2020 |
Kenya Community Water Projects | Case |
| Community-based water governance systems from the Mt. Kenya region in central Kenya.This study focused on women's participation and contributions to water governance in central Kenya as an outcome of a national gender quota, requiring no more than two-thirds of a publically-elected to consist of a single gender. | 11 Mar 2020 |
Knowledge Commons | Case |
| This study focuses on knowledge commons. It outlines the connection between academic digital databases, such as the Digital Library of the Commons (http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/), the Workshop Research Library (https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/library/), the Polycentricity Database (https://polycentricity.com/), and the SES Library that are organized around Elinor Ostrom's vast research agenda, e.g., common pool resources, SES framework, polycentricity, resource users, providers, and the... | 11 Mar 2020 |
Groundwater, Agriculture, and Drinking Water Access in the Tulare Lake Basin | Case |
| Groundwater extraction and contamination in the Tulare Lake Basin, with focus on agriculture and its impacts on access to drinking water in impacted communities. | 11 Mar 2020 |
Governing Locust Outbreaks, South America | Case |
| Collaborative project between GLI, Senasa, .......... to..... | 27 Feb 2020 |
Archetype Analysis in Commons Research | Case |
| This is a collaborative project based on the IASC Arizona 2020 workshop panel on archetype analysis for commons research. Archetypes are increasingly used across a wide range of sustainability themes for “pattern recognition, diagnosis, or scenario development”. The work draws on a family of cases from the Social-Ecological Systems (SES) Library at ASU - to explore how archetype analysis can be used to synthesize results from a set of case studies. A second goal is... | 21 Feb 2020 |
