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San Martin Ocotlán community forest management, Oaxaca, Mexico | Case |
| The San Martin Ocotlán forest community encompasses a total of six settlements located in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, of which San Martin Ocotlán is the largest. The community has de jure rights to 13,000 ha of common property pine and oak forests. The case study involves a time period from approximately 1958 to the mid to late 1990s and catalogues an action situation involving approximately 3,300 residents organized in circa 600 households, who supplement their subsistence maize farming... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Sabi Sand Game Preserve, South Africa | Case |
| This case was part of a study to determine whether the institutional design principles of Ostrom were, in fact, related to "governance success" by Cox et al. In that analysis, this case was classified as a success. | 09 Aug 2016 |
Rural sokshing, Bhutan (I) | Case |
| Following the introduction of the Forest Act of 1969 and the Forest and Nature Conservation Act of 1995, the forests of Bhutan are owned and managed by the state, and are legally classified as "Government Reserve Forest". One of two major forest-related indigenous land-use strategies is sokshing [registered leaf litter forests] that is defined as "a part of the Government Reserve Forest registered in the name of an individual and maintained aside for collection for leaf litters required for... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Rural coastal fishing community, south of Mombasa, Kenya | Case |
| The fishing community contained in this case study is located approximately 50 km south of the city of Mombasa on the coast of Kenya, outside of the Diani/Chale National Marine Park and Reserve. The village has an estimated 1000 inhabitants in approximately 200 households. Approximately 44% of the households in the community are directly involved in fishery extraction and the community is considered economically dependent on the marine fishery. The original case study authors focused on social... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Robustness and Resilience across Scales: Migration and Resource Degradation in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest | Case |
| Migration is arguably one of the most important processes that link ecological and social systems across scales. Humans (and other organisms) tend to move in pursuit of better resources (both social and environmental). Such mobility may serve as a coping mechanism for short-term local-scale dilemmas and as a means of distributing organisms in relation to resources. Movement also may be viewed as a shift to a larger scale; that is, while it may solve short-term local problems, it may... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Regime shifts in a socio-ecological model of farmland abandonment | Case |
| Figueiredo & Pereira (2011) developed a mathematical model with two-way linked socio-ecological dynamics to study farmland abandonment and to understand the regimes shifts of this socio-ecological system. The model considers that migration is a collective behavior socio-economically driven and that the ecosystem is dynamic. The model identifies equilibria that vary from mass migration, farmland abandonment, and forest regeneration, to no migration and forest eradication; partial migration... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Port Lameron Lobster Fishery II, Nova Scotia, Canada | Case |
| Since this original case, much of the Atlantic Canadian fisheries have been reduced to a fraction of historical levels. In Port Lameron, very few harvesters fish for groundfish (cod, haddock, pollock, hake), swordfish, or tuna. The collapse of the Codfishery has been attributed to many issues, including scientific uncertainty, government policies to increase employment in the area, and subsidies to increase fishing capacity, and the inability of enforcement to stop foreign trawlers from... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Pastoral property rights in Azerbaijan | Case |
| rights for pasture access, use and managementy by mobile pastoralists in Azerbaijan | 11 Mar 2020 |
Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil | Case |
| This case was originally researched and compiled for the SES Library by Matt Cohen in 2013 for the Arizona State University course SOS 591: Applied Robustness Analysis in Social Ecological Systems.The resource appropriated is the city's municipal budget. Local laws enable a participatory process in which citizens influence budget allocations through collaborative deliberation. Citizens holding neighborhood-scale interests deliberate on allocations of the city-wide budget, a finite... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Paradox of marine protected areas: suppression of fishing may cause species loss | Case |
| This is a placeholder case for the model for the same name. Please revise case information to reflect the case study represented in the model. | 09 Aug 2016 |
Oyster communities, Florida, USA | Case |
| The Florida oyster fishing communities are located on the Florida “panhandle” with approximately 300 kilometers of coastline on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The case study states that this is an open-access fishery but includes a limited amount of historic data on the development of community based norms and institutions for managing the fishery over time and compares them to those used in the Louisiana oyster fishing community (see related cases below). No information is provided... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Overlapping institutions and their impact in the conservation of the Orinoco River Strategic Ecosystems | Case |
| Sustainability | 11 Mar 2020 |
Open Access Publishing | Case |
| Open access publishing is located on the world wide web, accessible anywhere where there is both internet access and a capable computer. Open access publishing is directly related to the digital knowledge commons, which started with the advent of the Internet around the 1950s and spans into present day and catalogues an action situation of over 3 billion people who have active access to the internet. The resource unit is peer-reviewed scholarly information or “high quality” information. The... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Nyamaropa Communal Area, Nyanga District, Zimbabwe | Case |
| The Nyamaropa communal area encompasses a total of five villages located in the Nyanga District in Zimbabwe. Beyond individual homestead plots and fields, the communities have access rights to an unspecified acreage of grazing/woodland commons that consist of miombo woodlands on mountain and hill slopes and Terminalia-Combretum vegetation in the lowlands. The time period examined involves a snapshot in time in approximately the late 1990s and is based on the author’s personal... | 09 Aug 2016 |
NGO-facilitated community irrigation system in Kasungu district, Malawi | Case |
| The exact location of the Malawi irrigation system is undisclosed due to anonymity concerns. However, it is generally located in the administrative district of Kasungu in central Malawi and encompasses an unknown geographical area. The case study involves a snapshot in time from approximately 2001/2002 to 2007 and catalogues an action situation involving seven villages organized in an unknown number of households. The villagers initially farmed their fields independently until... | 09 Aug 2016 |