- Resource System
- Lake ecosystem
- Resource Units
- Freshwater fish stocks
- Location
- Lake Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia
The fishery of Lake Titicaca is located off the shores of Lake Titicaca which encompasses Peru and Bolivia. The original case spans a time period from approximately the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s and catalogues an action situation involving an unknown number of fishermen organized in an unknown number of households in various villages in Peru and Bolivia. Native and introduced fish are the fugitive resource units.
The original case study authors focused on overfishing and institutional performance. The case study has subsequently been used in comparative analyses regarding Ostrom's Design Principles (see bibliography).
Ratajczyk E, Arizona State University.
Brady U, Arizona State University.
. 2002. Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca.
. 2010. A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management. Ecology and Society. 15(4):38.
. 2016. Explaining success and failure in the commons: the configural nature of Ostrom’s institutional design principles. International Journal of the Commons. 10(2):417–439.