E. Ostrom’s SES Framework to Understand the Factors of Successful and Unsuccessful Situation in the SES: A meta-analysis of community forests in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2016v5i2.p103-117Abstract
The social-ecological systems are inherently complex and their destruction is highly due to a limited understanding of the processes that lead to their improvements in or deterioration. In an effort to respond to this problem, E. Ostrom and colleagues associated with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University developed a Social-Ecological System (SES) framework. however, even if the importance of SES framework to enhance the sustainability of complex social-ecological systems is highly accepted, its implication to understand the functionality of the SESs which may leads to successful or unsuccessful situations is still lacking. In this paper, referring to the context of decomposability of complex systems, and using E. Ostrom SES framework theory and a meta-analysis of 31 case studies of community forests in Mexico, the importance of using this framework in the course of explaining variable interactions and configurations to achieve desired system outcomes is explained.References
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Merino L 2007. Conservación Comunitaria en la Cuenca Alta del Papaloapan, Sierra Norte de Oaxaca. NuevaAntrop, 2007: 37.
Ostrom E 2007. A Diagnostic Approach for Going Beyond Panaceas. Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Indiana University: USA.
Ostrom E 2009. A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems. Science 325: 419-422.
Ostrom E 2011. Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. The Policy Studies Journal 39(1):.
Ostrom E, Cox M 2010. Moving beyond panaceas: a multi-tiered diagnostic approach for social-ecological analysis. Environmental Conservation 37(4): 451-463.
Ostrom E, Janseen MA, Poteete AR 2012. Trabajar juntos: Acción Colectiva, Bienes Communes y Múltiples Metodos en la Practica. Primera edicion en español. Fondo de Cultura Economica: D.F, Mexico:.
Poteete AR, Janssen MA, Ostrom E 2012. Trabajar Juntos. Acción colectiva, bienes comunes y múltiples métodos en la práctica. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: México
Redman CL, Grove JM, Kuby LH 2004. Integrating social science into the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Social dimensions of ecological change and ecological dimensions of social change. SCOPUS 7(2): 161-171.
Rommel J 2015. What can economic experiments tell us about institutional change in social–ecological systems?. Environmental Science & Policy, 53: 96-104. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com.
SESMAD 2014. Social-Ecological Systems Meta-Analysis Database: Background and Research Methods. [accessed 2014;2015;2016]. Available from: http://sesmad.dartmouth.edu.
Thiel A, Adamseged ME, Baake C 2015. Evaluating an instrument for institutional crafting: How Ostrom’s social–ecological systems framework is applied. Environmental Science & Policy, 53: 152-164.
VanWey LK, Ostrom E, Meretsky V 2005. Theories Underlying the Study of Human-Environment Interactions. In EF Moran, E Ostrom (Eds.) Seeing the Forest and the Trees Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London): England. p. 38-71.
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RIVERO, Arturo Lara; HAKIZIMANA, Eugene. E. Ostrom’s SES Framework to Understand the Factors of Successful and Unsuccessful Situation in the SES: A meta-analysis of community forests in Mexico. Fronteiras - Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 2, p. 103–117, 2016. DOI: 10.21664/2238-8869.2016v5i2.p103-117. Disponível em: https://revistas.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/2033. Acesso em: 25 dec. 2024.
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